Commands tagged macosx

As of March 7, 2012:

Note updating all packages may take an excruciatingly long time. You might consider a discriminating approach: run `brew outdated` and select specific packages needing an upgrade.

For more information see homebrew's git repository: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

In Mac OS X, by default, you have to click the mouse on a Terminal window before you can type in it. You can change this behavior to mimic the X11 behavior of focusing on the window on mouseover.

Insert an additional (moveable) spacer on the right side of the Dock in Mac OS X

Insert an additional (moveable) spacer on the left side of the Dock in Mac OS X

Syntax:

google query_with_spaces "

so, make sure to end your query with a double quote

I have a mac, and do not want to install mac ports to get the base64 binary. Using openssl will do the trick just fine. Note, to decode base64, specify a '-d' after 'base64' in the command. Note also the files base64.decoded.txt and base64.encoded.txt are text files.

Using the COPYFILE_DISABLE=true environment variable you can prevent tar from adding any ._-files to your .tar-file on Mac OS X.

This depends on 'stripansi' and 'urlencode' commands, which exist on my system as these aliases:

The `open` command handles URLs on a Mac. Substitute the equivalent for your system (perhaps gnome-open).

I don't use system `mail`, so I have this aliased as `mail` and use it this way:

More information about what homebrew is all about: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

This version works on Mac (avoids grep -P, adding a sed step instead, and invokes /usr/bin/perl with full path in case you have another one installed).

Still requires that you install perl module HTML::Entities ? here's how: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=640489

This command will use the short username (ie: bsmith) instead of the full (or long) name (ie: Bob Smith), by default in the network authentication dialog, ie: when connecting to servers. Resulting in one less step/time saved.

Simply change the boolean value to "NO" (ie: "... -bool NO") to revert to the system's default behavior.

Adds up the total memory used by all Stainless processes: 1 Stainless, 1 StainlessManager and 1 StainlessClient per tab open.

When you press "cmd+n" in TextMate, you can have "HTML" language as default document format... You can also define other languages too. You need to know the UUID of your language bundle.

Checks the Gmail ATOM feed for your account, parses it and outputs a list of unread messages.

For some reason sed gets stuck on OS X, so here's a Perl version for the Mac:

If you want to see the name of the last person, who added a message to the conversation, change the greediness of the operators like this:

This does the following:

1 - Search recursively for files whose names match REGEX_A

2 - From this list exclude files whose names match REGEX_B

3 - Open this as a group in textmate (in the sidebar)

And now you can use Command+Shift+F to use textmate own find and replace on this particular group of files.

For advanced regex in the first expression you can use -regextype posix-egrep like this:

mate - `find * -type f -regextype posix-egrep -regex 'REGEX_A' | grep -v -E 'REGEX_B'`

Warning: this is not ment to open files or folders with space os special characters in the filename. If anyone knows a solution to that, tell me so I can fix the line.

These commands will mark a file as hidden or visible to Mac OS X Finder. Notice the capitol V vs the lowercase v. This will also work for directories.

setfile -a V foo.bar; // This marks the file invisible

setfile -a v foo.bar; // This marks the file visible

I have also found that adding the following aliases are helpful:

alias hide='setfile -a V'

alias show='setfile -a v'

If you use Linux in a Windows domain and there are N days to expiry, this is how you can change it without resorting to a windows machine.

When run on a mac, this command will bring up a dialog box in the Terminal when server HOSTNAME first responds to a ping.