Tag Archives: osx

Tethering a Blackberry with OSX 10.5.6

Posted on May 11, 2009 by drlidbom

Evidently there are some pieces of Bluetooth that get changed with the Leopard 10.5.6 update.  One of those appears to break tethering to Blackberries.  If you have everything “correct” based on the number of other tutorials out there, but you … Continue reading →

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Cmd-Tab stops working in OSX

Posted on May 8, 2009 by drlidbom

If your Command-Tab shortcut stops working in OSX, try the following: Start a terminal and run sudo killall Dock If it still doesn’t work, try killing ScreenSaverEventAgent (probably easiest for a novice from the Activity Monitor)

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Deleting files in a text file (OSX)

Posted on March 25, 2009 by drlidbom

Someone had a list of absolute paths of files they needed to delete. I sent them this tiny script to help them out: sed ‘s/\ /\\ /g’ filelist.txt | xargs rm Explanation: Take filelist.txt, replace all the spaces with backslash … Continue reading →

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DoubleCommand

Posted on October 19, 2008 by drlidbom

There are several things that still bother me about macs/OSX, even though I’ve been enjoying the “switch” for several years.  Two that come to mind are how items are selected with the finder (up/down arrows selecting more items no matter … Continue reading →

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I love awk…and grep…and sed…and terminals

Posted on October 9, 2008 by drlidbom

Today’s terminal fun: find /Volumes/Data/ -mtime -2d -exec ls -al {} \; | grep “Oct  7″ | grep -v “.DS_Store” | grep “/” | awk ‘$8 ~ /\:/ { print $3″,”$5″,”$8″,” substr($0, index($0,$9)) }’ > October7.csv That will find all … Continue reading →

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