Coming from Windows I sometimes still have the desire or need for a desktop shortcut/symlink. There are two easy options for this Right click the application, select “Make Alias” and drag that alias to the desktop and potentially rename it at one point or the other. Open Terminal (Applications – Utilities) and run a command…
Sometimes you really need to find a file that has certain text in it, these commands will help provided you have an idea of the directory or the string
I’m mainly doing this project for my church where the CD will typically only have one track and the MP3 bitrate is acceptable at 64 kbit/s Yes there are faster options that also are free but this is the best option I’ve found to make it an easy process someone can start and chat with…
Occasionally you get empty directories and need to clear them out, these scripts below will help with that, just be careful what directory you choose. The scripts below are set to ~/ (current user home directory) but can easily be changed to any directory on your system. This first block will only list the empty…
I love to find RPM files that someone has compiled so that I don’t have to do the manual work but when I find one at a questionable location or one I’m simply not familiar with it’s nice to know what is in it. Recently I did a search on RPMFind.net for Redis (https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=redis) I…
If you use a Mac whether true server or a Mac Mini for a server this script below is very helpful to prevent the Mac from falling asleep and preventing the machine from being a server. If all of this still does not do it you can try to caffeinate your mac To re-enable sleep…
If you only have SSH access to a Mac OSX server and need some details on the machine you can use these commands to help. System_Profiler can get you a lot of the information you are likely looking for but it pulls a lot of information so initially you may want to output it to…
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