Commands tagged mac

MAC OSX doesn't come with an updatedb command by default, this will emulate the updatedb thats on a typical Linux OS.

Simply add it to your ~/.bash_profile

MAC OSX doesn't come with a locate command, This will do the same thing as the locate command on a typical Linux OS.

Simply add it to your ~/.bash_profile

adjusting the field "f1" will give you additional information such as

f1 = 98%

f2 = discharging

f3 = 2:02 remaining

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

No need for the ls -r and a sort is also not really needed.

List all MAC addresses on a Linux box. sort -u is useful when having virtual interfaces.

Python Alternative

Ruby version.

Also, a perl version:

You have to install the package macchanger but this command will create a random mac from a list of known manufacturers. If you want to make a complete random mac, use the -r option .

Shorter and more straightforward.

Also in perl:

Doubt it actually generates valid mac addresses but this version doesn't need any external commands so it runs much faster.

Much shorter as well.

First set the variable $hexchars:

Change the number in the first for loop if you need less then 1200 mac addresses

Useful for creating MAC addresses for virtual machines on a subnet. 00:16:3e is a standard Xen OID, change as needed.

Simple MAC adrress, thanks to ifconfig.

...or for a particular interface...

I much prefer using /sbin/ip over /sbin/ifconfig for most everything. I find the interface and output to be much more consistent and it has many abilities that ifconfig, route, etc. do not. To get the mac address for only one interface, add 'show dev [interface]' to the 'ip link' part of the command: ip link show dev eth0 | grep 'link/ether' | awk '{print $2}' . Also, both this command and the ifconfig one do not require root access to run, so the sudo is not necessary.

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.

adding users to groups on OS X is not a straightforward process, you need to use the new in built in Directory Service command line utility...

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.