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In Mountain Lion why do remote shells via ssh do NOT inherit the environment of the launchd parent process?
When logging in to my Mountain Lion Mac remotely via ssh I do not get the same PATH variable as when I open a shell locally: The local shell inherits its environment as expected from launchd and ...
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Why would SetFile be unavailable after upgrading to Mountain Lion?
I have Xcode installed, and have used the SetFile command (installed with Xcode) for some time. I just upgraded to Mountain Lion, though, and find that it is suddenly unavailable. I verified that ...
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Editing System Preferences via Terminal
Am looking to edit system preferences settings via the command line but cannot for the life of me find the correct names of variables.
In Login Options under Users & Groups, I would like to be ...
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TimeMachine restore issue
Times ago I did a "restore from time machine backup" in order to restore all my files on a new SSD I bought for my macbookpro (with OSX Lion), and all went fine.
Today I installed Mountain Lion on ...
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How to isolate the most disk-active process(es) in OS X?
I have some process(es) performing a lot of drive access from time to time, however I've hitherto been unable to isolate which process or processes are performing the access. What shell command can I ...
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dyld message when launching commands as sudo
When I launch a command from the shell as super user I always get back the following message:
dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or ...
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Colorful make compilation output
When I used Ubuntu, I remember that the output of make/gcc/g++ had nice colors, which were particularly helpful when needing to quickly identify errors (they were red).
Is there a way to enable ...
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How to fix locate.updatedb not respecting directory excluded from /etc/locate.rc?
I wanted to exclude some directories from the results of /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb by editing /etc/locate.rc. Unfortunately if I edit locate.rc locate.updatedb runs forever and does not actually ...
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What terminal commands are new or updated in Mountain Lion?
Where can I find a list of new or updated terminal commands or features for Mountain Lion?
Lacking any list, does anyone have a sugguestion on how to generate that list? (some combination of ls ...
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Is there a way to access a Mac's geolocation from terminal? (Mountain Lion)
(Note the Mountain Lion update at end of question)
Some GUI apps use OS X location services, but I want to retrieve a Mac's physical location from the command line. This could be useful for running ...
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How can I trigger a Notification Center notification from an AppleScript or shell script?
I'd love to be able to take advantage of 10.8's Notification Center features in AppleScripts and shell scripts I write.
Is there a built-in command or a third-party library I can use from either an ...
