Commands by eduo (4)

  • Automator Bash script to create Clean zips in MacOS Finder without __MACOSX metadata

    Finder compresses to ZIP but always includes extraneous metadata files (__MACOSX and .DS_Store) files and folders that may confuse other programs. One alternative is creating them and then editing the ZIP. This can work standalone or in an automator script accepting multiple selections (files or folders) and creating one zip per argument/selected file without that metada.


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    echo "$@" for f in "$@"; do FILENAME=${f##*/};FILEPATH=${f%/*}; cd "${FILEPATH}"; zip -r "${f}".zip "${FILENAME}" -x "*.DS_Store" -x "__MACOSX"; done; afplay /System/Library/Sounds/Sosumi.aiff
    eduo · 2018-10-20 12:27:50 451
  • OSX - Function to list all members for a given group

    Group membership in OS X is a mish-mash of standards that end up meaning there's almost a half-dozen of ways to belong to a group, what with group inheritance and automatic assignment. This means there's no easy command to find out all groups a user belongs to. The only sensible way then is to list all users and then query each user for membership. NOTE: This is a function. Once input you can execute it by calling with a groupname. Show Sample Output


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    members () { dscl . -list /Users | while read user; do printf "$user "; dsmemberutil checkmembership -U "$user" -G "$*"; done | grep "is a member" | cut -d " " -f 1; };
    eduo · 2012-05-20 11:34:33 7
  • Get the next weekday for an 'at' command

    Line can be modified as needed. This considers weekdays to be Mon-Fri. If run any working day it'll provide a parameters for the next working day for "at". "beep" provided as a sample command. This can be modified easily to include wait time. If you need something to run "D" days after today: # D=4;if [ $(date +%u --date="${D} days") -lt 5 ];then AT="+${D} days";else AT="next monday";fi; echo "beep" | at noon ${AT}


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    if [ $(date +%u) -lt 6 ];then AT="tomorrow"; else AT="next monday";fi;echo "beep" | at ${AT}
    eduo · 2011-06-01 14:15:11 8
  • For a $FILE, extracts the path, filename, filename without extension and extension.

    Useful for use in other scripts for renaming, testing for extensions, etc. Show Sample Output


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    FILENAME=${FILE##*/};FILEPATH=${FILE%/*};NOEXT=${FILENAME%\.*};EXT=${FILE##*.}
    eduo · 2009-06-10 16:11:38 13

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