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Mind you, there are plenty of things that're easy to do in the GUI, but hard/impossible in the terminal. … If you want all of the capabilities of OS X available to you, you need to be fluent in both GUI and terminal. …

In addition to the Terminal option @Nathan Greenstein gave, you can also force quit the SystemUIServer process using the Activity Monitor utility. …

OS X's implementation of sed uses the "basic" regular expression format by default, which doesn't support +. From man re_format: Obsolete (``basic'') regular expressions differ in several respects. …

It's not open, it's the fact that ~ only works when it's not in quotes. ~ isn't actually part of a standard file path, it's a shell metacharacter that the shell replaces in contexts where it looks lik …

That means traceroute didn't get any responses to its probes. The way it works is that it sends out test packets set to expire after 1 hop, two hops, etc; then it listens for "sorry, but your packet e …

You can either quote or escape the space when you define the variable, but then you must also double-quote it when you use it: #!/bin/bash -x PGHOME="/Applications/pgAdmin 4.app/Contents/SharedSuppor …

It's not up to iTerm, it's up to each individual command program (like rm, ls, etc) how to parse its arguments. The traditional convention in unix commands is to require options to come first (before …

.command scripts run in Terminal windows (that is, when you double-click a .command file, it opens a Terminal window, and you can use that window to interact with the script). …

Linux's netstat command options and OS X(/BSD)'s have almost nothing to do with each other. Of the options you're invoking, only -n means the same on both, and some of the others (-l and -p) have no e …

If I understand what you did, the problem is that the public key file in each of the ~/.ssh directories is named something like id_rsa.pub -- that means that's a key that's just sitting there, not one …

From the hdiutil man page: unmount volume [-force] unmount a mounted volume without detaching any associated image. Volume is a /dev entry or mountpoint. NOTE: unmount …

Starting in Catalina (10.15), macOS uses a split-volume format, with the system software on a locked volume and a separate "Data" volume for user data, user-installed software, etc. Most folders conta …

Rather than getting all users' IDs and searching for the right one, you can use dscl /Search -read to get just the specific user's info: dscl /Search -read "/Users/$USER" GeneratedUID This will print …

This is because of the <key>KeepAlive</key><true/> in the .plist file, which tells launchd to auto-restart the program if/when it exits. launchd doesn't like to restart things too often, so by default …

OS X doesn't have an entirely clean way to do this, but there are a few ways to fake it. First, AppleScript has a good way to do sudo-ish things based on a graphical authentication, and you can use t …