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OS X Command Line Utilities

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Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#23

Post by benihana »

I like do harmless pranks on coworkers who don't lock their computers

    yes "lock your computer, numbskull" | xargs say
Just repeats the phrase in a monotone computer voice over their headphones. I only do this to engineers, tried it on a PM once, never again.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#25

Post by melling »

benihana wrote: post #23

I like do harmless pranks on coworkers who don't lock their computers yes "lock your computer, numbskull" | xargs say Just repeats the phrase in a monotone computer voice over their headphones. I only do this to engineers, tried it on a PM once, never again.

Have you ever asked yourself if maybe you're just being annoying? I don't lock my computer. It'll time out and lock after an hour but I prefer to leave it unlocked.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#26

Post by kylek »

reuven wrote: post #4

This article was nice, but it indicated that you need to change the system preferences in order to change the voice. It turns out that you can pass the -v flag to use a different voice, or "-v ?" to get a list of names. So you can do say -v Samantha Help, I'm trapped in this castle! or say -v Princess Help, I'm trapped in this castle! But wait, it gets even better: The Mac comes with a number of voices for other lang…

I must say...being a sysadmin with the ability to ssh into developers' laptops remotely in our domain...this is one of the more fun commands ;)

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#28

Post by akerl_ »

melling wrote: post #25
benihana wrote: post #23

I like do harmless pranks on coworkers who don't lock their computers yes "lock your computer, numbskull" | xargs say Just repeats the phrase in a monotone computer voice over their headphones. I only do this to engineers, tried it on a PM once, never again.

Have you ever asked yourself if maybe you're just being annoying? I don't lock my computer. It'll time out and lock after an hour but I prefer to leave it unlocked.

That's pretty terrible opsec. It presents a risk to separation of roles / compartmentalization if a coworker can walk over to your workstation and have access to it, to say nothing of malicious access by somebody who shouldn't be in the office in the first place.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#29

Post by [deleted] »

kylek wrote: post #26
reuven wrote: post #4

This article was nice, but it indicated that you need to change the system preferences in order to change the voice. It turns out that you can pass the -v flag to use a different voice, or "-v ?" to get a list of names. So you can do say -v Samantha Help, I'm trapped in this castle! or say -v Princess Help, I'm trapped in this castle! But wait, it gets even better: The Mac comes with a number of voices for other lang…

I must say...being a sysadmin with the ability to ssh into developers' laptops remotely in our domain...this is one of the more fun commands ;)

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Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

#30

Post by qtrain »

nemild wrote: post #16
Alex3917 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The actual post is fantastic though. There are a million posts that give a one sentence description of the common unix utilities, but very few that actually give examples of when they are the most useful.

Check out http://bropages.org/ and https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr Both examples of community driven man pages with examples

This is great. Thanks for the link.
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