UNIX is both the underlying code and architecture that makes up Mac OS X / iOS as well as a way of interacting with a Mac using the terminal app, X11 app, and various shells like `bash` or `zsh`. Whether you're logging into a mac using `ssh`, using `mdfind` or `tmutil` or using other open source ...
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How to specify group id for a user-defined group
When I set up my accounts in Snow Leopard Server, I was able to give an explicit group id to my user-defined groups using the old Workgroup Manager. Now that I've updated to Mountain Lion Server, I ...
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publickey error using cvs
I'm trying to get a copy of the repository for scrotwm using their cvs repository, but I'm having some trouble. I'm running the pull according to this example: ...
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Problem trying to install iftop via Homebrew
I got Homebrew installed, but:
>brew install iftop
==> Downloading http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/download/iftop-0.17.tar.gz
File already downloaded in /Volumes/0/z/Library/Caches/Homebrew
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Downloading multiple files with curl with different proxies
I'm trying to download multiple urls from different domains using different proxies.
It should do all these in one row of code, running curl just once:
do shell script "curl --proxy 1.2.3.4:800 ...
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How to find files not containing comment x?
I try to find all "*.xyz" files in folder x which does not have comment "abc". This code does the opposite. I would prefer to use Spotlight if possible. How i can do this?
Thanks
do shell script ...
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Mac Single User mode view flash drive
After accidentally deleting /etc instead of /efi (rEFIt stuff), I left my mac Unbootable. I have a flashdrive and I want to copy a few files to it in single-user mode before I restore the system. I ...
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How can I (re)create development and build tools on a corrupt installation?
On my previous computer I had Xcode working nicely; on my present computer, with Homebrew installed, gcc and make are present in /Developer/usr/bin but not /usr/bin. On the whole when I try to ...
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Touching files in correct order
This code touches files in alphabetical order.
I need to touch files in order it is in list_of_files, so first it touches file2, then file3, then file1).
Is there any other way to do this than to ...
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Creating preview and icon for screenshots [closed]
I would like to make this code to automatically create preview and icon so it looks nice in Finder and so i don't have to wait my graphics app to create these things when i first time open in browse ...
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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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Reason why applications aren't stored in the Home-Folder?
I wonder why Apple don't put all applications in an applications folder inside the Home-Folder. So they could offer a hole new mac for each user.
Every file is user specific, except for the ...
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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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Is there a maximum length of metadata that can be written in one xattr command?
Is there any text length limitations for how long text can be put to xattr? I plan to put my AppleScripts source code to script files so Spotlight can find it. Using Finder Comments isn't an option ...
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“opensnoop” utility doesn't work with spaces between filenames, how to fix?
I use "opensnoop"
/usr/bin/opensnoop
to show all files which are opened from different processes.
But when I want to specific a file with
sudo opensnoop -n "directory/filename"
i'm getting ...
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How to get inode from alias file?
In this MacWorld forum thread aliases are described as
Aliases can reference an object in the file system either by a
persistent ID or by path. Generally they will contain both
pieces of ...
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Is there a way to convert audio files in Mac OS X or the command line without using iTunes?
Now, I know I can use iTunes to convert music. But it's quite a pain.. All I'm asking is: Is there anything built into OS X or UNIX for converting files? Right now I simply want to convert .mp4 to ...
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Is there a best / OSX-specific way to force all files created in a directory to have certain group ownership?
Basically I need any file filefoo that is newly created by userfoo or userbar, both members of groupfoo, in /Users/Shared/SpecialDirectory to have the same ownership that would be achieved by that ...
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How i can log various information of files in directory?
I'm looking for a way to get the following information via AppleScript:
all the information ls provides including the creation date/time of a file or folder
MD5 hash, Finder labels and ...
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Thread count of process x?
My AppleScript needs to get thread count of process x.
I have tried many ps etc codes but all these are not working for some reason.
I tried these:
do shell script "ps uH p 301 | wc -l" -->" ...
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What is the maximum amount of file arguments I can pass to a command?
If I do this in OS X, what is the maximum amount of files I can test?
Or is there a maximum length for this string?
do shell script "md5 -q 'path/to/file1.txt' 'path/to/file2.txt'"
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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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Deeper knowledge of os x? [closed]
I want to gain deeper knowledge of os x, which books/courses/forums should i take? All books that i have seen was about how to save your document in Pages.
First of all, i will learn bash but what's ...
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Receiving dynamic_pager notices in Applescript
The dynamic_pager daemon also provides a notification service for those applications which wish to receive notices when the external paging pool expands or contracts.
How my AppleScript can ...
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What is the difference between the sudo and su command?
What is the difference between the sudo and su command? Why does OS X handle these different than Linux?
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how to get ls to list files in case-insensitive order?
How do I get the ls shell command to list my files in:
case-insensitive order
with the directories at the top?
The reason I ask is: I want Aquamacs Emacs dired to list my files and directories ...
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Copying ISO file to USB drive in OS X?
I have tried to copy an ISO file to a USB drive. I am unable to do it with Disk Utility. How can I copy the ISO file to a USB drive?
But I get the below. I have enough space in the 16GB USB drive ...
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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 ...
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Where is the New Oxford American Dictionary stored?
I'm trying to build a command line tool to look up definitions of words, it's only a dummy app for me to practise my C++ skills.
I know there is a list of words stored at /usr/share/dict - but what ...
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How do I change the “primary group” for an existing user?
My current primary group (the gid I see listed by id) is me, rather than staff. I'd like to change it to staff, without changing anything else about my user account. How do I change the "primary ...
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What is the effect of permissions on external drives?
I've set the permissions on files on my removable external drives in ways that seem to make sense to preserve some degree of security. For example, for files that only I should have access to, I've ...
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Where should shell tools be installed?
Are there Apple guidelines for where user shell tools in Mountain Lion should be installed? Some (e.g. TeX, or Apple's Git) end up in /usr, and others (e.g. X11) seem to end up in /opt (sometimes with ...
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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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Opening an OS X disk image with a launchd agent while the display is sleeping
I created a launchd agent which opens a non-password-protected sparse disk image (and mounts its solitary volume) daily at 2:45AM in preparation for backup software to write to the volume. The launchd ...
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How do I delete a BootCamp partition using Terminal's diskutil?
For some reason, the BootCamp Assistant app won't let me delete my BootCamp partition. How can I do so using Terminal and the diskutil terminal app?
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What tools exist to recover a file I clobbered using cpp in terminal?
I accidentally typed cpp Scriptname.py DestinationDirectory, intending to copy the Python script into the folder.
I realized afterward that I should have used cp, but now my Python script is ...
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I maintain my Unix website on, presently, a Mac. Can I maintain it from a (not jailbroken) iPad 3?
I have a website at JonathansCorner.com, which for the most part is a static collection of files, mostly HTML5, served up by a Linux Apache server. Maintaining it is mostly a matter of creating new ...
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What system is more customizable/open - Mac OS X or Mac OS 9? [closed]
As Mac OS (X) is generally considered as less customizable and less open system than Windows or Linux, I wonder if this is true for Max OS X which is as we know based on Unix. Maybe in fact Mac OS X ...
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Sshfs or its substitute in Apple products?
I instructs my Apple friend to get Sshfs, i.e. to mount an outside target, to home -directory but he cannot find sshfs for Mac. Dose there exist some substitute or some Apple-compiled version for ...
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PS command ouput limited to 80 bytes only [closed]
The output of PS command only returns 80 bytes
args The command with all its arguments as a string. The
implementation may truncate this value to the field
width; it is ...
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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 to use a UNIX console app
I downloaded a port knocking script from
http://www.zeroflux.org/projects/knock
It downloaded a file knock, which is a Unix Executable File. When I double click on it, it runs the Terminal, where it ...
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Unix Log Exception Check [closed]
I have a log file which needs to be checked every 15mins for "Failed - System Error:". If the error is repeated for more than 2 times in the given 15mins report via mail.
o/p shld be timestamp and ...
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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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Xcode for iPad?
I don't have an Apple computer, only iPad and Debian computer but I still would like to add a feature to iOS app here. Earlier I found out that I can download Xcode, more here, from Apple Store. 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 to fetch an AirPort/Wi-Fi password using /usr/bin/security
I have been trying to use /usr/bin/security rather than hard coding login/password information into scripts. For example, here's how you get the password for 'pinboard.in'
security 2>&1 ...
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Compiling LaTeX in Apple products: is something like pdflatex around?
My Apple friends says that they cannot compile LaTeX. I don't have a Mac at hand to test what the problem is.
How can I get something like pdflatex to get LaTeX compiled on a Mac such as a MacBook ...
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How does Apple achieve such an ultra fast boot up?
I'm a recent Mac user (MBP) and the booting time really surprises me.
Within few seconds, from complete power down, the OS prompts you to log in, then the rest just flies!
And even faster recovery ...
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How can I ask Mountain Lion to have apache2 recognize .cgi and execute it as a CGI script?
I've upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion, and have noticed as a result of the upgrade, besides my screen saver saying it won't work on this version of OSX, Apache is displaying the private web ...
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Getting .profile to execute after .bash_login
When I installed RVM, it turns out that it created .bash_login with this:
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session as a function
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