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OS X Command Line Utilities

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Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

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Post by melling »

bluejekyll wrote: post #48
melling wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Then why have it lock at all? You must never have access to critical things like a bank account, source code, internal documentation of business ongoings. So basically if you have no sensitive information, by all means!

Sure I have. And so did everyone else in my group. If you can't trust the people who you work with... In the middle of the day someone will notice someone else using your computer. If no one does then the camera overhead will.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

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Post by dllthomas »

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.

On my team, you would surely say many things about ponies in our internal chat.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

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Post by mverwijs »

wsc981 wrote: post #15
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…

OMG the Dutch voice sounds perfect. say -v Xander "Ik houdt van appeltaart met slagroom in Scheveningen op zondag."

Except: s/dt/d/g

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

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…

This is how iPod Voiceover titles are recorded.

Which is rather lovely, because someone in Apple HQ has decided that the (London) band Saint Etienne must be French, and so Thomas faithfully reports that the current track is "Leek a Motorweh".

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

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Post by tammer »

This is a great intro. Here's my favorite OS X Terminal trick:

⌘. (command period) is a hotkey not defined in the menu for sending BREAK. This is automatically equivalent to ctrl+c in shells, ctrl+g in emacs and ESC in Vim. Similarly, ⌘K is short for clearing the screen. These are much more ergonomic than the standards on Mac laptops and wireless keyboards.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

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Post by pjmlp »

jmount wrote: post #40
mistersquid wrote: post #34

As a longtime Mac user (as early as System 7) and aficionado of UNIX, I love OS X's CLI and its affordances. The linked article provides several well-packaged tidbits that might encourage users of other CLI-replete OS's to check out OS X. More power. However, I'm not a fan of the soft recommendation for Homebrew. I understand Homebrew places everything in `/usr/local` but software installs on Mac should generally con…

Without something like Homebrew you don't get any current Unix tools (OSX shell is way out of date) or anyway to systematically update them. This is a big benefit that far outweighs any perceived benefit dropping bundles into /Applications. And you get some attempt at installation of dependencies.

What are current UNIX tools? OS X supports what is expected from a POSIX compliant OS.

I guess you mean BSD and GNU extensions to POSIX.

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

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Post by balls187 »

`say` is one of my favorite little things about OS X. In a couple of my build script, I have throw in a couple random say commands if say is installed on the system. Everyonce in a while a Dev will ping me when their computer speaks to them.

I created a gist that says a random starwars quote in each of the systems supported voices.

https://gist.github.com/balasuar/6bf1c64594780836cfcd

Re: OS X Command Line Utilities

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Post by jumpwah »

chimeracoder wrote: post #11

For Linux users, `xdg-open` is the equivalent of `open`. The latter exists on Linux, but it will open a socket. There are a number of utilities that handle copy/paste, but `xclip` is probably the most widely used. Screenshots can also be done a number of ways, but `scrot` is my favorite. The two most useful flags to pass with it are `-s` and `-d`. As for `launchctl`, `systemctl` is what you want to use to do the same…

I prefer maim [1] to scrot, you should maybe check it out if you didn't already know about it?

[1]: https://github.com/naelstrof/maim

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