Using programs and commands that do not have a graphical user interface (GUI) but are rather controlled by typing text commands into a terminal program, or shell.
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Is there a command to install a dmg
I want to install a dmg file on a remote server. All I have is an ssh access.
Since a DMG is a disk image, I tried to mount it, but mount does not seem to recognize its format.
file says my dmg file ...
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Change Command Prompt - Variables are literal, and changes to .bashrc or .bash_profile not making a difference
Trying to change my command prompt in OS X 10.8 / Mountain Lion. Changes to ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile do not make any difference. Like:
export PS1="\W \$"
It defaults to the host name ("\h\%"). ...
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How can I determine if the screen is asleep in Mountain Lion, from the command line?
I have a script that needs to run every so often, but only if the screensaver is active or if the screen is asleep (to make sure nobody is actively using the computer first). I need to have a way to ...
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Terminal : needs full path to execute a command
Let's suppose i have an application in /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/myapp.app/Contents/MacOS/myapp.
When i use cd to reach the directory 'MacOS' and then issue the command myapp it says command not ...
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How do I “Get Info” from the command line?
Related to this question: http://superuser.com/q/514528/90435
Via http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/12/find-out-where-a-file-was-downloaded-from/ I find out that you can use 'get info' though Finder to ...
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How do you record audio from command line with osx?
I've tried ffmpeg but there is no /dev/dsp device.
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How to run .exe files on Mac without virtual machine?
I do have one software(.exe) file which I need to run on my macbook pro. For that I need cross platform application just like wine in Ubuntu.
Can anyone suggest me the application?
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How does Mountain Lion set the default text editor for the “open -t” terminal command?
OSX seem to offer open -t command line shortcut to open arbitrary files in the system default text editor.
Where is this default text editor set?
Can I change it from the command line (if possible) ...
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How to remove the line of Notes.app's background? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I remove the lines in the Notes.app and change the line spacing?
I tried to modify the Notes.app for removing the paper style lines, because I prefer the paper ...
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Can I play chess on my Mac from the command line?
If I were feeling insufficiently geekish on any particular day, and thus found the GUI Chess App to lack an appropriate amount of tech credibility, is there a way to play chess on my Mac from the ...
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How to control Bluetooth wireless radio from the command line?
This question is almost the same as my previous question, but with one major difference; I want to turn on/off Bluetooth from the command line (bash or similar), NOT from AppleScript - the answers for ...
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Moving a folder with “sudo mv”, how to preserve ACLs?
I'm moving a whole folder from one volume to another (both HFS+), using sudo mv, and thought ACLs would be preserved. However at the end of transfer I see that they haven't been kept, and since mv ...
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How do I command Automator to convert the multiple images from PNG to ICNS once at all? (Solved)
I use OS X Mountain 10.8.2.
I used Automator and added AppleScript, copying the command from the old app's developer at the Iconoodle - Convenient ICNS to PNG image conversion (Iconoodle isn't ...
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Why does Java SE 6 Web Start (javaws) not find the JRE with Apple's Java for OS X 2012-006 on Mountain Lion?
In brief
The JRE is installed but javaws can not find the JRE.
What can I do on the command line to re-enable the web plugin for Apple's Java 6 in Chrome or Safari?
I want to avoid Java 7. (We're ...
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adding a secondary group for user via CLI in Lion is not working
I need to assign a secondary group membership to a user on a client machine running 10.7.4. In CLI
edit3:~ admin$ sudo su -
edit3:etc root# dseditgroup -o edit -a userA -t user QC
edit3:etc root# ...
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How do I speed up new Terminal tab loading time?
How can i speed up the terminal startup in Lion?
I'm not referring to the startup of the Terminal application, but to the startup terminal windows, like when i open a new tab.
I don't have anything ...
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How can I kill a process using top on OS X?
On other Unixe,s I can use top and then hit K and type the process ID.
How can I do that in OS X?
I can type kill [the_pid] on its own at the command line and that works. However, I was wondering if ...
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Is there a OS X equivalent for iproute2?
I am searching a command line tool collection like iproute2 on Linux.
Network Utility is OK, but I would like it on the command line.
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Booting with specific netboot image automatically (commandline)
It try to figure out how to reboot a mac automatically with a sepcific netboot Image
via bless you can reboot the mac and let it bot from the default netboot image of a specified server. But as long ...
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When I close the lid and open it later in the day, will command line programs resume?
I've been running a python script from the command line that's inserting data in a database for a couple of hours now. It will take at least half a day more before it's finished. However, I want to ...
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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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Fink::SysState: Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies
fink update-all is telling me the following:
Information about 6311 packages read in 25 seconds.
The following 20 packages will be installed or updated:
gconf2 gconf2-dev gconf2-shlibs imagemagick ...
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Does mac os x have any command tool like pidstat in linux?
It can tell me the current status of a process, for example, whether it is still running or has been terminated.
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Copy to network share using local disk cache in Mac OS X Lion
I'm using rsync in Mac OS X Lion to copy a backup directory from my local HD to a network mounted share (local LAN). My goal is to archive the local backup to the network drive, thereby freeing up ...
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“Open with” in Finder.app gives duplicate entries [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to omit apps from external drives in “Open With” menu?
in finder's open with menu are a lot of dups. I am running latest OX X and patches.
I googled and found ...
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Can grep highlight matching text without hiding file content?
I frequently use grep's context command line options (-A, -B, and -C), but occasionally I want to view the whole file with matching expressions highlighted. To accomplish this currently I simply ...
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Completely clear all output from a Terminal window
I would like to clear all output from a Terminal window (including all historical output) to get it back to a clean state as if you had just opened a new Terminal window, or a new Terminal tab.
I can ...
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iCloud Find My Mac configuration using script
A Macbook Pro from a friend of mine was stolen and I am trying to create a script in order to activate the 'Find My Mac' feature of is iCloud account configured in his Macbook Pro.
Is there a way to ...
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Is there a free command line program for converting PDF files to SVG?
Once upon a time I used Corel Draw to edit vector graphics. Now I'm looking at using Sketch. I previously converted all my old CDR files to PDF but Sketch doesn't seem to like to open PDFs containing ...
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How do I take a steathy picture with my iSight camera from the command line?
Is there a command line utility that allows me to take a picture from the built in camera? Something like screencapture allows for, well, screen captures.
The reasoning for a command line tool is I ...
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curl installed but ec2 api could not find
I am trying to get the ec2 command-line api work on my OS X 10.7.4 without much success. The commands are complaining about curl but it looks like curl is installed and is available. See below:
...
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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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Use curl to download images from website using wildcard?
Is there a way to use curl to download non-sequential images with a wildcard? I want to download all the panoramas I upload to my account at 360 Panorama to a local folder so I don't have to do this ...
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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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cpio's file on disk is not older; skipping — how to suppress this warning?
I create shadow copies of a directory containing 50K+ images (I don't remove them from the card until they're in three other places). Every time I add images to the master, I update the shadow copies ...
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.tar files on OS X Lion
How am I supposed to deal with .tar files with OS X Lion? I'm trying to install Ruby Version Manager, but Lion is throwing a fit about not being able to expand the tar file. This isn't the first time ...
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Editing iPhoto-specific metadata
Perpetua:2011-01-16 ashley$ mdls IMAG0107.jpg
...
kMDItemComment = "Cat with is tongue out."
So, here's my question. xattr can be used to modify some ...
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Under 10.8 which file stores the environment variables?
This has been this way since 10.6. There is no .bashrc file in the home dictionary but the environment variable PATH indeed exists as the result of this command shows:
$ echo $PATH
...
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Terminal in full screen mode: how do I recover from “cat /dev/random”
What are the ways I can regain control over my computer when I have terminal in full screen mode and type:
cat /dev/random
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Add Chrome to dock with parameters via Automator with chrome icon
I need to have started Chrome without the build in Flash
via console you add the Parameters
--disable-internal-flash
which works fine, now i would like to have a Dock Icon which passes this ...
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Password dialog appears when SSH private key permissions are set to 0600
I installed my SSH private key in ~/.ssh/id_rsa and set its permissions to 0600. When I connect to an SSH server which uses my private key in Terminal.app via ssh, a dialog pops up and asks me to ...
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Why is a command line change to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist not effective immediately?
When the Info window of Finder is used to associate files of a particular type with an application:
the preference is effective immediately.
When Terminal is used to make a comparable addition ...
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Exclude files from “central metadata store”
I'm fairly familiar with the mdfind utility. I find it's very useful when I can't find a file or when I need to find a file with certain contents. The problem is that I need to exclude some files from ...
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Dia command line not working
I've got a problem with using Dia from the command line on OSX 10.7.4. I downloaded and installed the OS X dmg from http://dia-installer.de/download/macosx.html I've been using it to create graphics ...
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How can I use RSVG with ImageMagick?
I'd like to use the RSVG for SVG processing in ImageMagick (the included library is fairly incomplete). RSVG is a supported delegate but needs to be installed separately.
I've installed librsvg and ...
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I have lost the prompt on Terminal on my Mac; unable to get commands to work
I was trying to launch a few Java applications using the terminal. The command that I was instructed to launch it with (I was following a guide) was the following:
#!/bin/bash
cd "$( dirname "$0" )"
...
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At the command line, how can I 'arrow along' faster using words instead of chr's
I am at the command line and I have
. /this/set/of/directory/this_command "parm1", "parm2", "parm3"
When I 'up-arrow' to recall previous lines, how can I move along the line from "word to word". ...
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Backing up iPhoto pictures and folders from the command-line
I'd like to install a new OS X on a MacBook and I'd like to know what needs to be done to backup only the iPhoto pictures. I definitely do not want to backup the entire /Users/Cedric/ directory. All ...
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How to set iChat status from the command line?
I'm trying to sync my Last.FM last played track with my iChat status... right from the command line. I've come this far:
curl -s http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/Da3X/recenttracks.rss |
grep ...
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AirDrop: How to access AirDrop from command line?
I was looking for an option to use Airdrop to sync a set of directories between two computers.
I want to achieve this wirelessly(hence chose Airdrop w/o having the computers connect on a network or ...
