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0 654 posted 16 years ago by chrisaiv
Running this command will append a line with given values to a file you specify. Replace words between < and > with the values you desire.
1 903 posted 16 years ago by engel
Set a reminder. Use +hhmm to set a reminder for some hh (hours) or mm (minutes) in the future; e.g., set an alarm for 45 minutes from now as: leave +0045
0 517 posted 16 years ago by rhockens
One shot verbose expansion.
4 642 posted 16 years ago by bbhack
After: sudo port -v selfupdate Update outdated ports with: sudo port upgrade outdated
1 677 posted 16 years ago by rhockens
After installing MacPorts, try running a selfupdate to grab all the latest MacPorts Portfiles (Portfiles contain information about how to install MacPorts software "ports"). You will need to run this command as an administrator, and it requires root...
0 568 posted 16 years ago by rhockens
Leave off the final pipe to /bin/sh to do a 'dry run'
3 1191 posted 16 years ago by ches
A one-liner to remove any temporary files modified over one day ago. Removes files from /tmp/ Run without the '-exec rm {} \;' part to check that it is matching the right set of files - this can be dangerous if run by root! If you want to remove fi...
1 733 posted 16 years ago by wolfie
[quote] Verbose booting shows you the actual process of Mac OS X's startup. You'll see drivers get loaded and services launch. This command should work on any recent (New World) Macintosh: sudo /usr/sbin/nvram boot-args="-v". The -v flag tells the s...
0 582 posted 16 years ago by rhockens
"...UNIX systems run scheduled maintenance routines — known as maintenance scripts — to clean up a variety of System logs and temporary files. By default, these are executed between 03:15 and 05:30 hours local time, depending on the script. If...
1 691 posted 16 years ago by rhockens
List the current version and installation date of every application on a OS X system, using of Spotlight.
1 552 posted 16 years ago by zingo
for .bashrc, a function that cd's to a directory and lists the contents it takes ls arguments and a directory. for example, cl goes to home dir and lists contents. cl -l goes to ~/ and long lists contents. and cl -lrt public_html shows the contents o...
0 586 posted 16 years ago by zingo
updates (svn up) a working copy and displays the changes
4 689 posted 16 years ago by zingo
0 521 posted 16 years ago by gtcaz
- lowQ/ is the output directory - pass quality level from 1 to 100
2 885 posted 16 years ago by abhiomkar
Usage: save the script to ~/scripts/my.bashrc and then source it in .bashrc.
0 850 posted 16 years ago by thebugslayer
Mount Samba share from osx terminal, might not show up in Finder
0 1252 posted 17 years ago by vanne
2 671 posted 17 years ago by gtcaz
1 481 posted 17 years ago by tgunr
0 571 posted 17 years ago by tgunr
List all packages that are installed in your system
1 653 posted 17 years ago by vanne
0 860 posted 17 years ago by sudarkoff
My additions to the textdrive .profile
0 496 posted 17 years ago by ryansobol
7 725 posted 17 years ago by basicmagic
Remove all those annoying thumbnail files that Windows users created while browsing your network drive. This command traverses all directories and deletes all "Thumbs.db" files as it finds them.
1 1285 posted 17 years ago by Roshambo
Move all mails with a certain subject (in this case starting with the word "Undelivered" into a backup dir. It is by no means a mail filter, I needed it to clean out the maildirectory after a HDD crash wich caused over 1000000 (one million) local bo...
0 498 posted 17 years ago by berkes