OS X Command Line Utilities
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OS X Command Line Utilities
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#2This is neat. I'll be getting a mac soon, and this is right up my ally.
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#3My favorite command is 'say'. You can do all kinds of silly voices.
Try this out: say hello -v Good
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#4There's been a few of these lists over the past few years, most recent one is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494100
It seems like a large portion of HN is less experienced re sysadmin, but is interested in it nonetheless. Perhaps there's room to make a 'codecademy for unix' type course? Curious to see what folks thing.
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#5My favorite command is 'say'. You can do all kinds of silly voices. Try this out: say hello -v Good
For anyone wondering, you can also do this:
say -v '?' (This gives you a list of voices)
say -v Good (This let's you type in a stream of text)
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#6Awesome. I knew about `pbcopy`, but i never knew you could also pipe stuff into it. That saves a lot of time saving script outputs to temporary text files and copying!
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#7My favorite command is 'say'. You can do all kinds of silly voices. Try this out: say hello -v Good
It knows how to sing "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" as well:
say -v cellos "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo"
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#8Great list! Includes all the old favorites with clear explanations.
This is only tangentially related, but I recently wrote a little Automator Service to gather any selected file and folder paths from Finder. I very often need to grab the path of something for programming-related stuff, and doing it from the command line or with the mini-icon drag-and-drop takes way too long. Maybe somebody here will find it useful! http://cl.ly/1a3s3g1u2Q2w
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#9no love for macport?
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#10mdfind / Spotlight can be a fairly powerful tool. Consider this query, which finds all Xcode projects I've tagged as "Active":
~$ mdfind tag:Active kind:xcode
/Users/jn/Code/xyz/xyz.xcodeproj
...