Archive for the ‘Darwin / UNIX’ Category
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.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
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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 ...
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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 ...
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