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

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Post by krrrh »

ytjohn wrote: post #28
jzelinskie wrote: post #26

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I think if you go to the Keychain, you can configure it to put an icon in the top right tray that you can click on to lock your computer. I often find myself accidentally moving my mouse to the top right corner of my Windows and Linux machines to lock them now.

That is exactly what I do. I think that the combo I would normally try (Cmd+L) logs you out. I remember at one point trying to find the correct key combination, and the primary results were to put the lock icon up. That works find enough for me.

Defining a hot corner in the bottom left in trackpad prefs has been my go to for years. It works fast and is rarely activated by accident.

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

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Post by yoz-y »

seanwilson wrote: post #49
beachstartup wrote: post #35

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i'm not. all of it makes me nervous. even package managers with supposedly cryptographically secure verification make me nervous. but, you gotta do what you gotta do to actually do stuff. i sure as hell ain't going back to the days of compiling everything from source.

> i'm not. all of it makes me nervous. even package managers with supposedly cryptographically secure verification make me nervous. Android and Chrome for example are really ahead of this in my opinion. Apps are sandboxed and you know uninstall clears up traces of them. Obviously it's not perfect but it's miles ahead of installation scripts and binary installers which can do anything they want with your system and mi…

That is what Mac App Store is for. However, all of these sandboxed environments come with their own sets of problems and make making especially these kind of tools quite difficult if not impossible.

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

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Post by danbee »

SG- wrote: post #45
Scarbutt wrote: post #43

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I don't know, CLI commands in os x are much worse than in linux, want to display wifi info? $/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I lots of useful commands like that are not in your path by default, that said, at least os x lets you modify almost any part of the system with shell commands.

which airport /usr/local/bin/airport

Tried that on my Mac

$ which airport

airport not found

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

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Post by rgcr »

ralfd wrote: post #46
hammerha wrote: post #32

There's a more popular but similar project. https://github.com/guarinogabriel/mac-cli Has anyone used both?

It literally says on the github page of OP submission, that Mac-CLI was inspiration. HNews discussion about it 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11977162 But I too wonder why I should use this instead of Mac-CLI?

I think @koenigdavidmj has the answer :)

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

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Post by JustSomeNobody »

As opposed to alias in bashrc for the commands you use most often?

This and the other one that was on HN a short while back, I just don't get the point. Learn the command line, already. Yes, some are hard to remember, but that's why history exists. And if you rarely use one, keep it in a simple, greppable text file.

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

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Post by pjmlp »

seanwilson wrote: post #49
beachstartup wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i'm not. all of it makes me nervous. even package managers with supposedly cryptographically secure verification make me nervous. but, you gotta do what you gotta do to actually do stuff. i sure as hell ain't going back to the days of compiling everything from source.

> i'm not. all of it makes me nervous. even package managers with supposedly cryptographically secure verification make me nervous. Android and Chrome for example are really ahead of this in my opinion. Apps are sandboxed and you know uninstall clears up traces of them. Obviously it's not perfect but it's miles ahead of installation scripts and binary installers which can do anything they want with your system and mi…

> Apps are sandboxed and you know uninstall clears up traces of them.

Not in all versions of Android, if they write stuff on the SD card.

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

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Post by Alphasite_ »

jlgaddis wrote: post #34
theseoafs wrote: post #18

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Just pipe the script to a file so you can read it without having to copy-paste. :) curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rgcr/m-cli/master/install.... . > install.sh

Or use curl 's built-in options: curl -O ... or curl -o install.sh ...

Or pbpaste | sh
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