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

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0 515 posted 16 years ago by rhockens

Bash Recursively Remove OSX file locks

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0 540 posted 16 years ago by benpjohnson

Bash expand tar.gz files

One shot verbose expansion.

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4 635 posted 16 years ago by bbhack

Other Email Command Output

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1 523 posted 16 years ago by vanne

Bash port (Update outdated ports in macports)

After: sudo port -v selfupdate Update outdated ports with: sudo port upgrade outdated

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1 670 posted 16 years ago by rhockens

Bash port (Update outdated portfiles)

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...

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0 565 posted 16 years ago by rhockens

Bash Batch File Rename with awk and sed

Leave off the final pipe to /bin/sh to do a 'dry run'

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3 1182 posted 16 years ago by ches

Bash How to remove files that are over 1 day old

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...

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1 728 posted 16 years ago by wolfie

Bash nvram (Verbose Mac OS startup)

[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...

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0 576 posted 16 years ago by rhockens

Bash periodic (Mac OS X Maintenance Scripts)

"...UNIX systems run scheduled maintenance routines â€” known as maintenance scripts â€” 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...

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1 688 posted 16 years ago by rhockens

Other Bash shortcut for finding a rubygem

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0 625 posted 16 years ago by vanne

Bash List all application versions

List the current version and installation date of every application on a OS X system, using of Spotlight.

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1 545 posted 16 years ago by zingo

Perl How to replace a string in a file quickly from the command line

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0 1423 posted 16 years ago by wolfie

Bash The Top Ten Unix Shell Commands You Use

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8 747 posted 16 years ago by zingo

Bash cd's to a directory and lists the contents

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...