Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Named Darwin, it has a Mach kernel and FreeBSD heritage.
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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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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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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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Create bootable ubuntu usb for mac, or any pc
I've used Ubuntu live and the start up disk creator tool to create a bootable usb with ubuntu.
I used the start up disk tool and I first clicked erase, to clear the contents of the usb, and then ...
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sv_SE.UTF-8 Problems with Bash and VIM in iTerm2
Two specific issues, despite me running iconv -f iso-8859-15 on my old files when converting from sv_SE.iso8859-15 to sv_SE.utf-8 I still get distorted characters. And I believe it's because of Vim ...
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How do I make a droplet/.app in platypus for my unix command?
This is my sample code from the platypus tutorial.
I am trying to make it work with a command named pymol, and I want it to open .pdb files or open just pymol. I know nothing about perl, but I have ...
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how to detect a laptop hibernate/resume(close lid,open) in osx from a bash script
This is a follow on question to
how to trap a suspend a resume from a bash script
How do you a trap the event that occurs when you close the lid and later reopen it from a bash script?
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How can I enable internet sharing without using the gui or apple script on snow leopard?
for some rather strange reason my sharing preferences tab crashes (it's a long story and there seems to be no good solution for it, it's looking for a ui object that no longer exists).
Anyway, I want ...
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Dual-boot OS X and Fedora
I'm trying to install Fedora (dual-boot) on a brand-new MacBook Pro. The live/installer CD runs flawlessly on the machine, which was a nice surprise. But after the install is completed, I cannot ...
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Shorter timeout on I/O errors MacOS X
How do you set a shorter timeout value for read/write I/O errors on MacOSX?
We tend to get a few semicrashed disks and want to rsync the contents to a secure location, but when the file subsystem ...
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A real non-“better touch tools” solution for select-to-copy on Mac OS X
I recently moved to Mac. I am missing my X11 copy-paste style.
I can't find a way to exactly emulate X11 behavior "select-to-copy", "middle-click-to-paste" globally on Mac OS X.
I am aware that this ...
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How do I detect a copy event in Finder?
I am trying to strip formatting from text copied from my Illustrator docs. Someone accurately pointed out to me that running pbpaste | pbcopy via command-line will perform this action on text in the ...
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Boot linux bootloader from Mac OSX
Recently I was running Fedora 17 on my computer which was an HP windows based machine. Unfortunately my computer has a malfunctioning motherboard and will no longer turn on. I removed the hard drive ...
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IPSec VPN Debian Squeeze Server for Mac OS X
I'm trying to get an IPSec VPN set up on my Debian home server, so that I can access my home network and browse without having my internet filtered by my college network, and so that I can perform ...
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Does HylaFax server run in OS X?
From their FAQ:
HylaFAX is intended to run on any UNIX system that supports a particular set of features: FIFO special files, BSD-style sockets and the TCP/IP communication protocols, BSD-style ...
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How to fix link error under CMake for class QX11Info on Mac OS X
I'm trying to build kxstitch, which is designed for Linux, on OS X. I've gotten most of the way there by installing MacPorts, XCode, KDE, etc. and making minor changes to the build file, but am ...
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FTP timeout FIRST time
I'm using PureFTPd on MacOSX (Snow Leopard, not server version). When trying to access the FTP account from the outside via dyndns (e.g. using https://www.wormly.com/test_ftp_server) the connection ...
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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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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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Unix vs Mac OS X, Notable Difference
I was searching Unix vs OS X. I found a notable difference at
From http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/919-mac-osx-vs-unix.html
OS X is a evolutionary kernel from the MACH and BSD ...
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Where to install applications
I'm a long-time Windows user in the middle of a multi-year personal migration to Linux-based development. On Windows when I installed an application it got put in the Program Files folder and I'd ...
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Help with a find command
I have a bunch of directories. Inside these directories is a cover letter and a zip archive of work. I wanted to run a quick and easy query to open up all the cover letters so I can decide if it's ...
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Is Mac OS X really SUS compliant?
Internet says that Mac OS X 10.8 has achieved certification to The Open Group UNIX® 03 standard and that it is a compliant system.
But a simple test with echo seems to indicate otherwise:
a) The ...
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Checking if I can reach some ports from my computer
Is there a terminal command or something on OSX that I can use to test if I can reach some ports on a remote server?
I know these ports are reachable on that server, because I can access them from ...
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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 ...
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“or” in shell glob
I want to ls the files containing the substring "s1r", "s2r", "s3r" or "s19r" in their filenames.
I'm almost there!
Botched attempts:
ls *s[123][9?]r*
The above gives me only files including the ...
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Fetch values from plist file on Linux
I have bash script which was written for OS X and now ported to Linux. I don't have access to the Linux box. The bash script would read values from plist files using the defaults read and PlistBuddy ...
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ps aux |grep 'asdf' grep: asdf: No such file or directory
For some reason a while back, the behavior of my command line changed, and I don't know why. Using OSX, now Mountain Lion(although this behavior was present before the switch).
Using standard ...
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Why the differences in color between SSH terminal sessions in OSX?
I'm trying to get the colors in an SSH terminal session with a CentOS machine to look the same as it does when I'm SSH'd into my Ubuntu server. If I run echo $TERM in both I get xterm-color as ...
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Best rolling release distribution for Macbook pro
I got a macbook pro 7.1 wich is running OSX, i'm looking for the most compatible distribution to dual boot.
Here's my criteria :
I don't want to reinstall my system every 6 month, so i'll prefer a ...
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How to bypass youtube's local cache?
Youtube performance here in Brazil has been terrible lately.
Checking my browser's activity I can see that my ISP has a local Youtube cache and serves videos in 1.7 MB chunks.
Talking to some friends ...
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XForwarding Applications from OSX
Using XForwarding, you can access GUI applications over ssh between two Xorg-powered machines (and sometimes even from a windows machine).
Is there a way to access OSX applications (like Finder) from ...
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Moving compiled assembly code to the boot sector of a USB device
I have written a simple operating system and I am trying to test it. I have VirtualBox installed and an eight GB flash drive, so I thought I would just use those. I am not sure how to make the USB ...
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How to install tar file (jhead) on Mac or Linux machine
I'm new to Linux and tar balls and was wondering how to properly install them on a Mac or Linux machine. I would prefer to know how to install on a mac but I just need some help understanding them. I ...
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A bunch of files have 777 permissions
I have been learning Python and Bash scripting, and I up to now I have given my scripts 777 permissions. Having learned more about how to set permissions, and knowing this is a bad idea, I ran the ...
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List all chflags file flags?
Is there a way to see a file's flags, such as hidden, schg, etc? I've got an rwxrwxrwx file that I can't edit, and I think a flag might be responsible.
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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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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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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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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 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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OS X setting environment variables
I have OSX 10.8.2 with ZSH as my shell and iTerm as a terminal (don't know if the last thing is relevant). I have to mention that I'm relatively new to OSX.
I'm trying to set up some environment ...
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Print files with file size less than 100 bytes
Basically this script is just supposed to print out the file size and the name of all files in a directory that are under 100 bytes. This script I wrote works perfectly on my Ubuntu, but wont work on ...
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What is wrong with this call to sed -i?
I have this line
find . -type f \( ! -name '*.plist' \) -and \( ! -name '*.mp4' \) -and \( ! -name '.DS*' \) -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/AAA/BBB/g'
my intention is from the current directory ...
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Can (CUPS) ppd files for Mac OS X be used for linux?
I am looking at buying a printer (actually an all-in-one I prefer for the features it provides, but I want to focus on the printer part here) which does not provide linux drivers, but does provide Mac ...
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Booting Ubuntu from usb on a Mac
I have a Macbook pro (late 2009) running OSX 10.6.8. I want to partition a flash drive and install my Ubuntu iso image onto it. Then I want to boot up from it by (restarting my computer and) holding ...
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How to change the current directory graphically using the keyboard only?
There was a program named NCD (Norton Change Directory) a few years ago that did a good job at helping me change directory back in the DOS days.
This programs displayed a tree, and you could navigate ...
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How should I check to see if the remote smb serv is mounted?
I'm pretty new to mount. Basically, I have a remote SMB serv on the local network that I want copy images from a directory on, then repeat every 5 min.
I think what I need to do is make a script that ...
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How to prevent fs unmounting?
(Apologies in advance for giving so few details below, but trust me that the set-up and the problem I'm dealing with are truly baroque, and even a superficial description would result in a far ...
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How can I force LXDE to have a transparent background when connecting with X/X11?
Just got my Raspberry Pi in the mail and I've started playing around with it. After getting LXDE up and working working in desktop mode (i.e. monitor and keyboard plugged in) I decided I wanted to ...
