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Commands tagged macosx

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remind -z1 -k'echo %s |ssh <user>@<host> "growlnotify"' ~/.reminders &
2009-07-19 17:35:30
User: mattjbarlow
Functions: ssh
Tags: macosx remind growl
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Send Reminders from your Linux Server to Growl on a Mac

Requires Linux Remind:

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind

and Growl on the Mac:

http://growl.info/

growlnotify needs to be in the executable path on the mac.

Combined with "prowl" in the iPhone you can receive push notifications of your reminders to the iPhone.

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qlook() { qlmanage -p "$@" >& /dev/null & }
2009-06-17 16:02:34
User: mikedamage
Tags: macosx quicklook
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Use QuickLook from the command line without verbose output
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pbpaste > newfile.txt
2009-06-17 15:14:22
User: mikedamage
Tags: macosx clipboard
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Paste the contents of OS X clipboard into a new text file
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man ls | col -b > ~/Desktop/man_ls.txt
2009-06-13 11:49:33
User: vigo
Functions: col ls man
Tags: man macosx terminal col
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Convert "man page" to text file

You can convert any UNIX man page to .txt

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open .
2009-06-10 10:55:20
User: vigo
Tags: macosx terminal finder
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Open Finder from the current Terminal location

I did not know this, i'd like to share...

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ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6
2009-05-29 18:52:12
User: unixmonkey4003
Functions: grep sed strings
Tags: macosx hardware display
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Show display type
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sudo pmset schedule sleep "08/31/2009 00:00:00"
2009-05-14 09:31:32
User: hobzcalvin
Functions: sleep sudo
Tags: sudo macosx osx mac sleep timer pmset
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Mac Sleep Timer

Schedule your Mac to sleep at any future time.

Also wake, poweron, shutdown, wakeorpoweron. Or repeating with

sudo pmset repeat wakeorpoweron MTWRFSU 7:00:00

Query with

pmset -g sched

Lots more at http://www.macenterprise.org/articles/powermanagementandschedulingviathecommandline

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ifconfig en1 | awk '/inet / {print $2}' | mail -s "hello world" email@email.com
2009-04-28 06:01:52
User: rez0r
Functions: awk ifconfig mail
Tags: ifconfig awk macosx IP osx mac email
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sends your internal IP by email

This is useful if you have need to do port forwarding and your router doesn't assign static IPs, you can add it to a script in a cron job that checks if you IP as recently changed or with a trigger script.

This was tested on Mac OSX.

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sudo vi /etc/fstab; Go//smb-share/gino /mnt/place smbfs defaults,username=gino,password=pass 0 0<esc>:wq; mount //smb-share/gino
2009-04-02 16:04:35
User: GinoMan2440
Functions: mount sudo vi
Tags: Filesystem bash vim sudo Linux mount macosx unix vi smb smbfs samba fstab gino
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automount samba shares as devices in /mnt/

the middle command between the ; and ; is the vi commands that insert that line into the last line of the file, the esc with the carets is literally hitting the escape key, you have to have the smbfs package installed to do it, I use it to access my iTunes music on my mac from my linux PC's with amarok so I can play the music anywhere in the house. among other things, it allows you to access the files on that share from your computer anytime you're on that network.

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hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name DVD_NAME -o MY_DVD.iso /path/
2009-03-06 15:45:59
User: occam
Tags: Os X macosx
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Make a DVD ISO Image from a VIDEO_TS folder on MacOSX

/path/ is the root folder of the DVD, not the VIDEO_TS folder.

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