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Will this bitscrubber in fact scrub away bits rather than writing to a new file?

I have a Unix-y bash script and a Python script: #!/bin/bash for item in $* do for file in `find $item -type f` do bitscrubber_internal $item done rm -rf $item done and ...
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How can I have Qt Creator to recognize my environment variables?

I use Qt Creator as my main IDE for cross-platform C++ application development. In doing so I had set it up so that it depends on a set of environment variables that I define in .bashrc. On Linux ...
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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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When does the arp cache get emptied?

does anyone know when the arp cache in OS X Lion gets emptied? Or which automatism causes it to get emptied? Is it a time period, which can be set somewhere? Thanks!
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How can I get Unix (brew/xcode/vim) acting like Unix under Lion?

I "upgraded" from Snow Leopard with Homebrew and vim both chugging along happily, to Lion. Now vim hangs/segfaults, and when I invoke brew, it complains xcode is missing, and continues to do so after ...
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SSH Key Error, sudo works fine

When I try to ssh (using ssh user@server.com) into my server at home from either the local network or from outside, I get the following error: But if I use sudo ssh user@server.com, it works with no ...
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why isn't my environment variable visible from the command line?

I'm trying to run the james smtp server on Lion. When I do this ... sudo JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home ./james-2.3.2/bin/run.sh ... it works fine. However, I'd like to make JAVA_HOME an ...
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What is OS X's equivalent of Linux's NSS?

Anyone familiar with the internals of Linux knows about NSS; it's the subsystem that services, like gethostname() and such, delegate to. The code that actually makes DNS queries or reads /etc/passwd, ...
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Proper group ID (gid) for Lion?

If you create a brand new admin account in Lion, the following will be your id and group memberships (from $ id [new Lion account] | perl -lne 's/ /\n/g; s/,/\n\t/g; print;'): uid=504(lt) ...
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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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Installing gnuplot (or similar) on Lion

All the packages needed to install gnuplot through MacPorts on Lion succeed, except for aquaterm. Installing gnuplot through Fink is far less lucky on Lion. Fink bails out after only a third of the ...
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Installing Homebrew on Lion

I am trying to install Homebrew on Lion but keep getting an error. $ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)" I run the above code, which results in: ==> This script ...