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How do you list items with and without labels from the terminal?
Is there a command that can tell the label status (labels as applied in the info menu in the finder cmd+i) of an item from the command-line in OS X? Essentially, I just want to list all the items with ...
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Cannot trash a file?
I want to delete a file because it's of no use to me yet I seem unable to do so. I've gone through these steps so far:
Put file in trash, empty trash. -> Mac keeps on telling me: 12 items to ...
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What is the difference between .command, .tool, and .sh file extensions?
I saw a couple of questions about executing command line scripts? I saw that the .command and .tool extensions were mentioned. I have always used .sh. What is the difference between these different ...
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Moving folder to Trash in Finder is not synchronized with Terminal
I tried to delete a folder which I access via terminal.app. Though the Finder moved the folder to the Trash, I was still able to see the contents and edit the file from terminal.
created a textfile
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Any way to make multiple files stop hiding their extension?
How can I make multiple files show their extension at once? Any finder setting and/or terminal command would be nice.
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What orthodox file manager for OS X could I use?
I'm looking for a graphical file manager fro OS X, for console Midnight Commander is ok.
I need two panels, function keys operations and preferably FTP and SCP support.
Also, it would be great to be ...
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What command combo at terminal will output a list of directories with human-readable sizes?
I'd like to open Terminal.app and enter a command like:
my-macbook-pro:~ my-username$ ls -lh
Instead of seeing the size of the folders in bytes that are in my current working directory, I'd like to ...
