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Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X

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Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X

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Post by miles »

Thanks for crafting and sharing this.

I must admit to flagging this particular submission, as it is the fifth time it has been posted in as many days, with no other contributions (whether of comments or stories) to speak of. Forgive me if this seems harsh, but just to keep submitting the same item over and over without any other activity (including responding to comments made in the prior submissions) does not seem in alignment with HN.

Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X

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Post by auvi »

Lio wrote: post #2

Not sure I like the install method. I'm nervous of anything that asks me to pipe curl to shell.

the best way to get rid off the discomfort is to first check the shell script: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rgcr/m-cli/master/install.... | pbcopy

Then you can paste it in a text editor and if it is not too long you can verify the script.

And as this one is on github you can take a look directly.

Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X

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Post by javajosh »

I like it! I wish it had some features for making a screenshot, taking a photo, and recording video or sound for n seconds. A packet capture for n seconds might be nice, too (although that would certainly be more involved). Might as well add keyboard/mouse logging for n seconds. :)

Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X

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Post by koenigdavidmj »

The last one of these that popped up on HN replaced a lot of the common UNIX commands, and a lot of people here rightly asked 'why would I run "mac tar:extract" when I could just run "tar xf"?'

This one seems to get the balance a lot more right, with a lot of things that the average OS X admin wouldn't know off the top of their head.

- 'm lock': That's a lot better than whichever arcane key combination does it by default (my laptop stays closed most of the time, so the power button isn't an option).

- 'm nosleep': I would have to look that one up.

- 'm finder showhiddenfiles': It beats Googling for the proper 'defaults write' invocation.

Re: Show HN: Swiss Army Knife for Mac OS X

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Post by javajosh »

miles wrote: post #4

Thanks for crafting and sharing this. I must admit to flagging this particular submission, as it is the fifth time it has been posted in as many days, with no other contributions (whether of comments or stories) to speak of. Forgive me if this seems harsh, but just to keep submitting the same item over and over without any other activity (including responding to comments made in the prior submissions) does not seem i…

I've been pretty active on HN the last few days, and this is the first I've seen of it. Is redundancy sufficient for flagging? I always thought flagging was only for abusive or off-topic content, and redundant submissions were a moderator thing.
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