Archive for the ‘Darwin / UNIX’ Category

Running Mac’s Software Update From The Command-Line

Monday, November 17th, 2008

OS X comes with a command-line tool called 'softwareupdate' that installs recommended and optional Software Updates available from Apple. The tool can be used to install the updates to a local computer or a remote one.

Logos and Mascots of Popular Open Source OSs

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

 

Automating screencapture in OS X

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

I usually capture screens a lot when creating an article, blog post or presentation to show steps to follow in an application. And I wanted to automate this process to make it easier for me to get every step I go through without stopping to capture a screen and save ...

Searching for Files Using Locate

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Darwin and all UNIX and Linux variants have a command line tool called locate, that searches the file system for a file or a wildcard pattern. Locate doesn't search the file system directly, instead it searches a database that is rebuilt periodically and contains pathnames of all the files that ...