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Many years ago I taught myself some Bash and Python and wrote a couple of scripts which I still use all the time for work. So far this hasn't been a problem as I was still using Sierra on my old Mac. But now I just got a new Mac Studio running Monterey, which seems to have ditched both Bash and...

I am excited to show my new application, ShellHistory. I can say that I started working on it four years ago when I published my little shell script dbhist. That script was convenient. It kept shell history from many macs for the last years (close to 100,000 records). But it was a time for an...

it happens when I tried to use the command `open -a` I'm not sure if it has to do with I just deleted some files in /Previous System fixed after a restart

Background I always review my rm command line carefully before executing, so I thought I'd be fine. The other day while using the command history, I recalled and executed a previous command, thinking it's "ls some files", but didn't notice it's "rm some files". I executed that in a different...

I am running Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard), and this is the version of bash, the shell that is installed: /bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.17(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. I just downloaded and built the latest version of bash. GNU...

Hello everyone, I would like to know if there's a way to disconnect external mouse support on the MacOs High Sierra 10.13 for some testing purposes. The test needs to do 10 sleep cycles, leave the computer awake for 30s and sleep it by 60s. When the mouse is connected to the mac, by some...

Overview: How can I edit the inode number (ls -i /path/to/file) of certain files after file creation on a FAT-32 filesystem? Why I'd like to do this: During the holiday season I encountered a problem with jpg images on USB flash drives showing up in some weird order on a Philips TV. After all...

My network scanner is configured to drop files into a well defined location on my MacBook and it correctly drops files there. Trouble is the default umask value seems to be 077 which means that when it drops scans then I need to do a sudo'd chmod to give myself (or the wife) permissions to the...

Hey, guys! So I currently own a MacBook Pro 15" from late 2011 (w/ the optical drive). It's got a 2.2 GHZ Intel Core i7 with 8GB of memory and an Intel HD Graphics card. I've also got a 1TB SATA Disk. I'm wanting to switch to a lighter laptop, but still want to save my money. So I was...

Hi do you wish apple made g4 clamshells? I do because they have handles are small the keyboard is nice and its durable

Let me explain the scenario. I have a huge folder of documentaries on my internal HDD, and I also keep them backed up on my external drive. Let's say that one day, I decide to reorganize my documentaries on my local drive into neat categories (folders). I don't add any new files, I just move...

Hello everybody! This is my first post. Sorry it has to be about a difficult, no-good issue with my Macbook Pro running OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite), although I believe this applies to other versions as a friend of mine has virtually the same issue. For a few months now I've had a problem where...

I'm attempting to setup a Launch Agent that will run a simple shell script to mount a FUSE drive at login. I have written a .plist file and moved it into the ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ directory (shown below). Both the .plist and the shell script have permissions of 755. I am able to use the...

Hey, I'm currently desperately searching a case or hardshell for my new macbook pro 15 inch with touch bar. If anyone knows a site where i can buy one, please help me out!

Today I have released Current Directory Window for Terminal for macOS. This app is currently free for Black Friday for everyone. App description and screenshots below. App Description: Current Directory Window for Terminal allows you to open a new Terminal window from Finder with the current...