Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, Mac OS X has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems. It is the successor to Mac OS 9, released in 1999, the final release of the "classic" Mac OS, ...
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Unable to delete directory
On my OS X host, I am having trouble deleting the directory "foo".
mymac:.Trashes joe$ ls
foo
mymac:.Trashes joe$ ls foo/
Ảnh011.jpg Ảnh012.jpg Ảnh013.jpg
mymac:.Trashes joe$ ls -l foo/
ls: ...
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Verbose DNS query to see DNS query order?
I typically determine the IP of a host by doing: $ host -t A example.com. Is there a more verbose version of this that tells me whats happening in the background, specifically the order of what is ...
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Can the Linux kernel be compiled on Mac OS X 10.6.8?
I have a Macbook Pro and I want to build the Linux Kernel. Can I build 3.3.6 on my Mac? How?
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How to remove the (1) from filenames using the find command
I recently converted all of my FLAC files to a lower sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and bit depth of 24 bits (because iPhone/iPod don't support anything above that) using XLD on my Mac OS 10.7 (Lion).
...
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Error with fetchmail and SSL certificates
I have a problem configuring my mail client on my Mac OS 10.6.8. These were the steps I did:
# touch ~/.fetchmailrc
I edited the file and created the contents:
poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 ...
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I accidentally deleted the sudoers file on Mac OS X; is there any way to recover it?
I accidentalley deleted the sudoers file on Mac OS X; is there any way to recover it?
And once you've recovered it, how do you set it to mode 0440?
I presume not but I am desperate to get it back!
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dd copies more data than exists in .img?
I'm trying to dd an .img file over to my micro sd (8 GB). The rom (.img) is 2.66 GB, but in my output of DD (live) it says its transfered 9 GB. I don't get how it's turning a 2 GB image into 9 GB. I'm ...
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Alt-Left on OSX to behave like Alt-Left on Ubuntu
When connected to a ubuntu server bash shell, I can hold alt key and press the left or right keys to move forward or backward a word. It is incredibly useful.
Is this behaviour defined in the ...
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What does @ sign mean in 'ls' output on Mac OSX Lion terminal? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
what does the @ mean in ls -l?
What does the @ sign mean in the following "ls" output?
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 489 Jan 4 13:14 boot.plist
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Fork bomb on a Mac?
I just learned about a fork bomb, an interesting type of a denial of service attack. Wikipedia (and a few other places) suggest using :(){ :|:& };: on UNIX machines to fork the process an infine ...
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Dual booting on a Macbook Pro 7,1.
I'm looking to install Linux on my Macbook Pro in a Dual Boot config. I've previously asked this question in a different fashion here: Dual Boot Fedora 16 with OS X rEFIt.
However, it didn't really ...
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mdls command: video metadata question
All,
Mac based mdls command outputs the Pixel Height/Width and other relevant metadata info for a video. For eg.
mdls test.mov
kMDItemPixelHeight = 270
kMDItemPixelWidth = ...
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Is there any way to set Mac OS X to use xinetd instead of launchd?
Can Mac OS X run xinetd instead of launchd and if so, how do you do it?
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How do you install mutt on Mac OS X?
Is there any way of installing Mutt on Mac OS X without using a compiler, homebrew or MacPorts?
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Editing images with sips doesn't work without being executed directly from Terminal?
I made a cheesy application with a bash script using CocoaDialog, and within this application I need to modify the size of a photo. So, I researched a little and found the sips command; and it works ...
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find & sed (search and replace)
I'm using the following command on my mac:
$find . -name “*.java” -exec sed -i ’s/foo/bar/g’ {} \;
and it seems to have no effect.
I have two files in the directory that end in .java, which both ...
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Where does GCC look for its internal executables?
I have installed GCC to a custom prefix. When it is invoked, it complains that it cannot find some of its internal binaries.
My computer's "official" GCC keeps them here:
...
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Dual boot Fedora 16 with OS X refit
Having trouble with installing Fedora 16 on my Macbook Pro. While the installation itself completes without and issues, the bootloader doesn't install correctly.
I have rEFIt, which I already have ...
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Is there a way to undo the 'cpp' command in terminal?
I accidentally typed cpp Scriptname.py DestinationDirectory, intending to copy the Python script into the folder.
I realized afterward that I should have used cp, but now my Python script is ...
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Vim visual mode to system clipboard?
Using the vim text editor, I am looking for a method to copy content highlighted in visual mode to the system clipboard (i.e. I would then be able to Ctr-v that content say in a browser window).
Is ...
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How to meet required dependencies in order to install expect pecl extension on Mac OS X?
I am attempting to install the expect pecl extension.
OS version = 10.7.3
PHP version 5.3.10 installed via macports
expect version 5.45 installed via macports
The command I am executing:
...
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Opening files from Ubuntu server over ssh from Mac Terminal
So I SSH into a Ubuntu server and try to open the file in a Mac program (Coda) and get an error:
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console
Using the command
open myfile.html
This ...
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Installing afpfs-ng from source
I want to install afpfs-ng to get access to an AFP share from my Mac. I am running Debian and am following instructions from http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/175/17242, and I get
checking for a ...
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Grep_color on mac
I am trying to get my regex highlighted on mac using terminal. I have put this is my .profile:
export GREP_COLOR='1;30;40'
Nothing changes, so I added the same to my bash.profile still nothing, ...
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If Mac OS X is UNIX, why is it that it is not open sourced and the license is proprietary?
If Mac OS X is a Unix, as answered in this question, why is it that it is not open sourced and the license is proprietary, as stated in this Wikipedia article?
According the the genealogy from this ...
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How do I make all current and future files in a directory readable by a certain group/user?
I have a "Drop Box" directory for students to submit assignments. Its permissions are set to "drwx-wx---" where all of the students belong to the group. This lets them write to but not read from the ...
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why does grep -A n give more lines than n?
I am verifying UID/GID for certain users using the dscacheutil command. Using grep with -A flag gives me what I need but the number of lines doesn't make sense. Output below:
Edit8:~ edit08$ ...
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lpstat and localization under Mac OS X
How to force "lpstat" utility to show output messages in English under localized Mac OS X (version 10.6)?
Example:
lpstat -v
Shows in Dutch:
apparaat voor Samsung_SCX_4300_Series: usb://.....
I ...
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How to specify command line options for XAMPP for Mac?
Per the answer to this question:
Can I have conditional statements, based on server, in .htaccess file?
I want to specify a command-line option when starting up Apache on my Mac. But my Apache is ...
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Python set up on mac
My /usr/bin contains the following installs of python
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 76 Nov 18 06:17 pythonw2.7 -> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/pythonw2.7
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Is there a way to integrate the unix “man pages” into OSX's Dictionary app?
I was thinking it would be cool to be able to look things up in the man pages the same way one looks up words with the "Dictionary" app.
Is there a way to add the man pages that OSX supplies into ...
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How do I create a local copy of a complete website section from OSX using curl?
I'm trying to download Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform
so that I can read through it off-line on my iPad (which doesn't have an Internet connection)
I have used wget in Linux. It seems ...
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How to have CoreAudio from Mac to Linux/Unix?
After using Alsa and PulseAudio for a while, I feel they are not yet strong enough for Audio capture and audio playback.
When I test with loud-speaker and microphone, there is self feedback-loop.
...
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Setting LS_COLORS and in a GNU Screen
Is there a way to set a GNU Screen LS_COLORS to that of the default non-screen terminal window?
Is there .screenrc or .screen_profile, I don't understand what happens when a GNU Screen is ...
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Command line friendly virtual machine
I've been using Virtualbox for a while now, but the only way I've learned to interact with it is through the graphical interface.
Is there a way for me to send bash commands to the vm through the ...
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How to read an OSX disk in linux
When I put my OSX disk in linux and try to read it, it shows up as "WindowsSupport," and it only shows a few files. I think that this disc has a Windows partition and an OSX partition, and Linux isn't ...
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How do I build Lynx with SSL on Mac OS X?
I'd like to build and install Lynx on Mac OS X. I've found out that building is as simple as running ./configure, but I'm having trouble building with SSL support. I've downloaded openSSL. How do I ...
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Icon not showing in applications on OSX
I just re-installed Firefox, but the thumbnail is not showing in the dock applications folder. The icon DOES show both in dock and in finder.
I have tried to re-install Firefox again but without ...
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Can you perform system calls from OSX Terminal?
So I get system calls in the context of a C program, but my textbook doesn't really address making system calls in Terminal (on Mac OSX). Can you do these on the command line like with "commands", or ...
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In Mac OS X Snow Leopard, how can one file's permissions be matched to another?
I need to make the permissions of a file exactly match the permissions of another file in OS X 10.6.
I don't see 'getfacl' or 'setfacl' as suggested in some other posts for Linux. And, it doesn't ...
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libfaketime and Mac OS, LD_PRELOAD
Running Mac OS 10.7.2 and trying to run libfaketime and nothing happen. I installed and ran exactly as directed only the time and date stay exactly as are set in the system? Is anyone else able to ...
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Running an application with alternate/modified system time
I am looking for a way to start an application with an alternate system time than that which is set. Basically one of the beta programs I use has a bug (it really is a bug) that no longer lets it ...
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Fix or alternative for mktemp in OS X
I'm looking at a bash script someone else wrote that uses mktemp:
TEMP=`mktemp --directory`
However, this line does not work on my machine (OS X 10.6).
How would I fix this line so that it is ...
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Input a list of files & directories to be copied with ditto
I have a short list of files and directories of which I would like to make a flat copy of using ditto in a bash shell. There are approximately 8-10 files and/or directories that need to be copied. I ...
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Creating symbolic links to applications in Mac OS X
I installed Aquamacs in a fresh OS X desktop, and wanted to be able to call the program from the commandline.
Calling the file inside the app seems to work just fine:
Amoss-iMac:bin amosjyng$ ...
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How to verify if tmux is properly installed on Mac OSX
I've just tried installing tmux from source (via installing libevent first). The installation seemed fine, without throwing any obvious error. But when I typed tmux in iTerm2, it returned "command not ...
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Sound volume control does not work in Ubuntu
My sound volume control does not work when I'm logged in with my regular user, though the sound works correctly. What's weirder is that the sound control works when I'm logged in as guest.
With my ...
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Bug in grep, possibly Mac specific? (braces governing parenthesized expressions containing brackets)
Consider the grep pattern \\([a][b]\\)\\{2\\}. This should match string "abab", no? But on my Mac (MacBook Pro, 10.6.8, GNU grep 2.5.1 copyright 2001) it does not. On other machines it does match even ...
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How can I install the `ll` command on Mac OS X?
I'm using Mac OS X. When I SSH into servers I find the ll command useful, but it's not available on my local machine. How can I install it?
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How can I install programming tools in the root directory so that they can be used by non-admin users?
I'm running OS X and for security reasons my main account does not have admin privileges. How can I install development tools in the root directory so that they can be used by all users? If this can't ...
