Where does Mac OS X come from?
Discussing with Mac owners, I got several versions of where Mac OS X comes from. It is known to have some root in BSD, but how much, and where?
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grep strange behaviour with single letter words
I am removing stop words from a text, roughly using this
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Disabling CNA in MacOS
I am doing some experiences/investigation into captive networks/the WISPr protocol. (see Getting WISPr tags from a FON authentication portal )
Making “at” work on macOS
I am working on a CentOS server and schedule a task with command at
pgrep and pkill alternatives on mac os x?
Are there alternatives to pgrep and pkill commands on Mac OS X or should I just create aliases for them using other commands available for me?
Directory size calculation difference
I need to get the size of directory in terminal for signing purposes. I’m using following command:
Man page quotation characters
I’ve just been looking through a few man pages for a few different commands including grep and ifconfig. I’ve noticed over a few pages, the content uses a strange syntax to notate what i think are quotations (back-tick followed by a single or double quote): `text' Why can’t they use ‘ or ” to open … Read more
Check if process is running Mac OS X then execute code
I am creating a script which clears the cache for Google Chrome. However, I would like to check if Chrome is open and if so not run the code but if it isn’t then it will execute the code. I can see that the Process Name is Google Chrome but the code doesn’t work.
sed on OSX insert at a certain line
So I’ve been using ‘sed’ on linux for a while, but have had a bit of difficulty trying to use it on OSX since ‘POSIX sed’ and ‘GNU sed’ have so many little differences. Currently I’m struggling with how to insert a line of text after a certain line number. (in this case, line 4)