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Adding a song file to iTunes via the command line without playing the file
I want to add song files to iTunes via the command line.
open -a iTunes -g song.mp3
does exactly this. - However it starts playing the song, too. Any way to avoid this?
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Where do I find the full man page for afplay
In Terminal afplay -h shows full help text but the man page shows hardly nothing.
Is there any way to get a longer help page for man afplay?
I never use Terminal and it would be much easier if i ...
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Running *ix Commandline tools in Macbook Air? VNC? Virtual-machine? Usable or too slow? [closed]
I haven't used OS X since an awful experience with its commandline tools and CD Xcode about 2009, that time getting rid of all Apple stuff but coming back after iPhone/iPad/FaceTime/iCloud/etc. Now I ...
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How can I do the equivalent of a Unix find / -print [under user permissions] under Mountain Lion?
I am doing, or trying to do, a 'find /' which I would like to recursively list every file the user has permission to access under the volume "Macintosh HD" and nothing else.
I am presently filtering ...
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How do I get a Unix Executable File to run from anywhere, like Java or Git?
I've just created my first Command Line Tool in Xcode.
What do I have to do, or where do I have to put the final output file, so that I can run it from anywhere from within terminal, without having ...
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How to find all files that are larger than 1GB on the Mac HD?
It seems that either one of these commands can be used:
sudo find / -size +1G
sudo find / -type f -size +1G
But when it gets to /Volumes, it actually look at all the back up files by Time Machine ...
3
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3answers
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Using locate.updatedb doesn't work in Lion
A week ago I upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard. I want to use the locate command, but the locate database has not been built yet. So I tried running
sudo launchctl -w ...
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How do I change the time format used by ls command line on osx?
I want to make ls display time in ISO format (military format). How can I change this behavior?
On Linux I knew that I could force ls to display time in long format by usin --full-time but this ...
