If you use multiple Macs, you may find yourself writing and editing scripts that could be useful on all of your machines. This is another potential use of iCloud Drive. Here’s what I do:
Spotlight can be powerful and fast, but lacks some precise control over the results. Typically you get far more results than you would ever need. The command-line interface unlocks more advanced functionality and you can also integrate it into your scripts.
The core command is “mdfind” and you could do …
You can do some really interesting and time saving things using curly braces on the bash command line. Essentially, curly braces with a list of things separated by commas means run this command once for each item in the list.
This is best illustrated by a number of examples.
Depending on the situation, sometimes Finder can be the best way to interact with the file system and sometimes Terminal is better. There are a couple of little tricks for jumping.
Terminal has two Services available called New Terminal Tab and New Terminal Tab at …
The shells you hear about the most, like bash, tcsh, and zsh aren’t the only shells out there. For about 5 years, I’ve used a shell called fish. While the community of people using it is quite small, it’s a passionate group and the shell has some features you’ll wonder …
This one is a bit crazy, so be careful. Read on if you fall into most of these categories:
When people want to kill processes from the command line, I typically see them:
The find command is one of those utilities that, if you know it well, is one of the most powerful tools in your toolchest. However, with a man page nearly 600 lines long and somewhat bewildering syntax, it’s very intimidating. Sometimes the simplest options you are looking for can be …
This question comes up often on Swift mailing lists. Once you learn Swift, you’ll get addicted and want to use it everywhere. It’s not quite as straightforward writing a script in Swift as it is in python or bash. However, there are lots of benefits.
Marks are a little used feature in Terminal but can be insanely useful depending on how you use Terminal. I’ll explain by example.
