Commands by thebillywayne

Every rm'ed a file you needed? Of course you haven't. But I have. I got sick of it so I created a bash function. Here it is. It'll put trashed files into a $HOME/.Trash/"date" folder according to the date. I have rm aliased to it as well in my bashrc so that I still use the rm command. It'll choke if you attempt to trash a directory if that directory name is already in the Trash. This rarely happens in my case but it's easy enough to add another test and to mv the old dir if necessary.

function trash(){

if [ -z "$*" ] ; then

echo "Usage: trash filename"

else

DATE=$( date +%F )

[ -d "${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}" ] || mkdir -p ${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}

for FILE in $@ ; do

mv "${FILE}" "${HOME}/.Trash/${DATE}"

echo "${FILE} trashed!"

done

fi

}

Having to escape forwardslashes when using sed can be a pain. However, it's possible to instead of using / as the separator to use : .

I found this by trying to substitute $PWD into my pattern, like so

Of course, $PWD will expand to a character string that begins with a / , which will make sed spit out an error such as "sed: -e expression #1, char 8: unknown option to `s'".

So simply changing it to

did the trick.

When plumbers use pipes, they sometimes need a T-joint. The Unix equivalent to this is 'tee'. The -a flag tells 'tee' to append to the file, rather than clobbering it.

Tested on bash and tcsh.

ditto can be used to "thinnify" Mach-O Universal binaries to separate unncessary code from your machine. For example, doubleTwist.app shaved off around 10 MB while Google Earth went from 112 MB to 62 MB after extracting only the i386 code from them.

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1 sets hiberate on.

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 sets hibernate off.

from the pmset man page:

0001 (bit 0) enables hibernation; causes OS X to write memory state to

hibernation image at sleep time. On wake (without bit 1 set) OS X will

resume from the hibernation image. Bit 0 set (without bit 1 set) causes

OS X to write memory state and immediately hibernate at sleep time.

I often change my MacBook's sleep state. So I created a function for bash to make it a little easier.

Usage:

hibernate (on | off)

"hibernate on" will set your laptop to hibernate if the lid is closed.

"hibernate off" will set your laptop to sleep if the lid is closed.

### note : "proper" indentation isn't preserved on the website

function hibernate()

{

case "${1}" in

on)

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 1

echo Hibernate mode on.

;;

off)

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

echo Hiberate mode off.

;;

*)

echo "I'm sorry Dave, but I can't do that."

;;

esac

}

To make things easier, add the proper line in your /etc/sudoers file so that your user may invoke pmset without a password. Here's how mine looks:

bwayne luna = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pmset

Don't forget that you must edit sudoers with `sudo visudo` from Terminal.app, and not by another text editor.

Sorry this is so Mac OS specific.

tested on cygwin and Fedora 9 .

good to remember for those jobs where you cannot set a site-specific connect option in your ~/.ssh/config file.

I find that I create a directory and then cd into that directory quite often. I found this little function on the internets somewhere and thought I'd share it. Just copy-paste it into you ~/.bash_profile and then `source ~/.bash_profile`.