Commands tagged Os X

The closer to zero the better.Credit to TheSeb on macrumors: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1289884

C:/Sys/Bin/Admin/Desktop/Brackets/Search.exe

Use this the next time you need to come up with a reasonably random bitstring, like for a WPA/WPA2 PSK or something. Takes a continuous stream of bytes coming from /dev/urandom, runs it through od(1), picking a random field ($0 and $1 excluded) from a random line and then prints it.

The command creates an alias called 'path', so it's useful to add it to your .profile or .bash_profile. The path command then prints the full path of any file, directory, or list of files given. Soft links will be resolved to their true location. This is especially useful if you use scp often to copy files across systems. Now rather then using pwd to get a directory, and then doing a separate cut and paste to get a file's name, you can just type 'path file' and get the full path in one operation.

No final count, but clean and simple output.

Randomizes a file. The opposite of sort is sort -R!

Particularly useful on OS X where netstat doesn't have -p option.

It works best as part of a function, such as the following:

MUSICROOT=~/Music

function fplay {

if [ $1 = '-v' ]; then

shift 1

find -E $MUSICROOT -type f -iname "*$**" -iregex '.*\.(3g[2|p]|aac|ac3|adts|aif[c|f]?|amr|and|au|caf|m4[a|r|v]|mp[1-4|a]|mpeg[0,9]?|sd2|wav)' -print -exec afplay "{}" \; &

else

find -E $MUSICROOT -type f -iname "*$**" -iregex '.*\.(3g[2|p]|aac|ac3|adts|aif[c|f]?|amr|and|au|caf|m4[a|r|v]|mp[1-4|a]|mpeg[0,9]?|sd2|wav)' -exec afplay "{}" \; &

fi

}

I often use this command to learn pronunciation of unfamiliar words.

This will kill a specific process you don't know the PID of, when pidof and pgrep are not available, for example on OS X. var1 is created so that the whitespace can be trimmed before passing off to kill.

print the lines of a file in randomized order

random(6) - random lines from a file or random numbers

The sort utility is well used, but sometimes you want a little chaos. This will randomize the lines of a text file.

BTW, on OS X there is no

option! There is also no

These are only in the newer GNU core...

This is also faster than the alternate of:

The backtick operator, in general, will execute the text inside the backticks. On OS X, the pbpaste command will put the contents of the OS X clipboard to STDOUT. So if you put backticks around pbpaste, the text from the OS X clipboard is executed.

If you add the pipeline | pbcopy, the output from executing the command on the clipboard is placed back on the clipboard.

Note: make sure the clipboard is text only.

This finds all the PowerPC apps recognized by OS X.

A better version is:

system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType 2> /dev/null | perl -

wnl -e '$i=$j=$k=$p=0; @al=; $c=@al; while($j

s[$i].=$al[$j]; $i++ if ($al[$j]) =~ /^\s\s\s\s\S.*:$/; $j++} while($k

owerPC applications\n\n"'

but that is more than 255 characters...

Replace "user@domain.com" with the target e-mail address. Thanks to alediaz for "$HOSTNAME" which is very useful when running the command with Apple Remote Desktop to multiple machines simultaneously.

src: http://tinyapps.org/weblog/nix/200907090700_linux_cal_print_multiple_years.html

sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 50KByte/s

Set the bandwidth (bw) limit to any number you want. For example you could have a 15kb pipe for X application and then a 100kb pipe for another application and attach things to those pipes. If a port isn’t attached to a pipe, it runs at full speed. Change the number (in this case 1) to a different number for a different pipe.

The next step is to attach your port.

sudo ipfw add 1 pipe 1 src-port 80

In this case anything on port 80 (http) will be set to a limit of 50Kbyte/s. If you want to attach a second port to this pipe, repeat the command but change the port number at the end.

src : http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/12/throttling-bandwidth-on-a-mac.html

get desired info from machine and pipe it txt file.

adobe updater keeps popping up. (normal update fails, probably due to insufficient rights)

(src: http://aricsblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/adobe-updater-crashes-on-mac-os-x-and.html)

Replace "en1" with your network interface (on OS X, usually en0, en1, eth0, etc..)

Listen to different voices in the system--useful for picking the voice you like

Recursively removes all those hidden .DS_Store folders starting in current working directory.

Swap TRUE with FALSE to turn it off again. Note: Finder must be relaunched afterwards to see the effect. For example like this: