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How To Create A Split Zipped Archive From Mac OS X Terminal

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OS X comes with the aptly named Archive Utility that can be used to extract contents of compressed zip files, or create zipped archives of your own from your files and folders via the options provided in the right-click context menu. With no UI to speak of, the app works in the background and is fairly basic. What the default utility can’t do is create an archive of a folder that’s split into smaller zip files that can later be extracted as a whole into a single folder. There are several third-party apps available that allow you to do this but if you just want to quickly do it without using a third-party app, and don't mind typing in a command for the purpose, you can easily do so from Terminal. In what follows, we are going to show you how to use a Terminal command to easily create split zip archives of the contents of any folder. Read More

AppKiller: Kill Mac Apps, Processes & Send BSD Signals From Menu Bar

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Advanced Mac users often make changes to the OS via Terminal commands. For some of the simpler options, there are apps available that allow novice users (ones who don’t venture to Terminal) to make these same changes through a graphical UI. For advanced users though, the Terminal really is one of the preferred places to go when a system tweak is to be applied. AppKiller is a free Mac app that has been designed for both novice and advanced users. The name is slightly misleading though, since it doesn’t just kill apps, but also system processes, and provides an easy way to quit/restart the Finder, AirPrintDaemons, AirPort Utility etc. AppKiller executes commands in one of two ways; either by a click, or via Control + Click symbol. For each executable function, you can set one default action from the app’s preferences. It includes a number of BSD signals that you can send to an active app or process. The app’s response will of course depend on how it’s written and how it treats the BSD signal. Read More

Have Mac Terminal Audibly Announce The Completion Of A Command [Tip]

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Growl notifications are perhaps the best, and arguably the most popular, desktop notification system for OS X Lion. Many app developers integrate support for these notifications in their apps, and OS X Mountain Lion now supports a similar feature. As far as notifications for apps are concerned, Growl handles them well. If, however, you need a notification system for Terminal, one that would tell you when a command has successfully completed, you can add one of your own. Unlike Growl notifications, these are audio alerts that announce when a command has been executed, and make use of the text-to-speech (TTS) utility in Mac. The process requires you to add an additional command and the text that should be announced, at the end of the command you are running. How? Read past the break. Read More

Maintain Your To Do List In Ubuntu Terminal With Devtodo

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devtodo is a program aimed to help developers manager their to do lists from the Ubuntu Terminal. It maintains a list of items that are yet to be completed, allowing programmers to track outstanding bugs or items by adding them to a to do list. You can prioritize items according to importance (e.g., low, medium, high etc), and display them in a hierarchy within the Terminal window. With the use of some small shell scripts (scripts.* in the doc directory of the source distribution), Devtodo can also display the outstanding items in a directory as you make changes to it. For example, if you use the cd command into the source directory for todo itself, you can see a list of outstanding items (if any). Read More

AnyConnect Allows Multiple FTP/SSH/Terminal Connections In Mixed Mode

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AnyConnect is an FTP client that provides a simple mechanism for connecting to an FTP, FTPS, SSH and Telnet/Terminal client. It supports connectivity with multiple simultaneous sessions, and provides the utility of connecting to an FTP and terminal connection at the same time. While not as feature rich as Filezilla, however, it provides a simple interface to connect with single or multiple remote server simultaneously. Read More

Run Terminal Commands Over Files In Current Directory With DTerm [Mac]

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Many users don’t like launching Mac OS X Terminal just to run some commands because it often disrupts the workflow. One workaround is to keep Mac OS X Terminal always open to quickly run commands on currently used files and folders. DTerm is a small application that provides a better solution. It adds context-sensitive command line bar which is accessible through user-defined hotkey combination. With DTerm, you no longer need to navigate to current working directory in order to run certain commands over applications, files or other items in current directory. DTerm automatically sets itself to working directory, which saves the time involved in manually navigating to current location in Terminal. Moreover, it comes packed with some useful features, like, sending the selected files to command line, copying the command results, browsing through your command history and results. Read More

TotalTerminal Replaces Visor In Mac; System-Wide Terminal With Hotkey

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Many Mac proficient users like to use Terminal utilities like, Click2Shell, cdto, etc., to quickly launch Terminal for performing numerous system tasks. Both mentioned tools open current location in Mac Terminal from Finder toolbar, preventing users from manually navigating to current location in Terminal. If you’re looking for a more convenient way to launch Mac Terminal window, try out TotalTerminal. It’s an Terminal.app plugin which provides a persistent Terminal Visor window. Although it isn’t meant to open current Finder folder in Terminal, you can quickly slide down Terminal from system menu bar by using default hotkey combination Ctrl + ~ to instantly start running required system commands. When this hotkey combination is re-triggered, it will hide the Terminal. Read More

cdto Opens Current Finder Location In Mac Terminal

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A while back we reviewed a tiny application for Mac, called, Click2Shell, which lets you open current Finder window in Mac Terminal. It supports numerous other shells, including, Tenex C Shell, TCL shell, etc while you can use it with widely used Mac terminal emulators, including, iTerm and xTerm. cdto provides the similar functionality but with small yet useful variations. The application claims to handle special characters in file/folder paths, such as, apostrophes and other Unicode characters while supporting both Terminal emulators iTerm and X11. The application can save you the trouble of manually editing the folder/file path in Mac Terminal before you execute commands over it. Read More

CLI Companion Is A GUI Based Terminal For Beginners

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Ubuntu newbies always find the Terminal to be the most puzzling part of the operating system. It can be quite hard to remember even basic commands and to understand the concept of adding PPAs for downloading application packages. Although, there are many Terminal alternatives like Guake, but they do not provide help for new users and merely add some tabs and interfaces changes which only add convenience for the Pro users. CLI Companion is a GUI alternative for the Ubuntu Terminal which displays Terminal commands in a list and allows running them in one click. Previously performed commands are also stored in a searchable list and tab support adds the utility of performing multiple Terminal tasks conveniently. Read More

Guake Is A Tabbed Terminal Emulator With Hotkey Support

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Guake is a drop-down Terminal for Linux operating systems, with multi-tab and hotkey support. It has repositories available for Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and ArchLinux. The initial display is a transparent background, however, you can add colors of your choice to change the look of the text and Terminal background. Guake is not just an elegant Terminal emulator, but it also adds the convenience of using hotkeys and tabs to help perform numerous Terminal tasks. Read More

Quickly Open Mac Terminal Window To Current Folder Using Click2Shell

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Click2Shell is a small application that lets you quickly open the folder in Terminal without using any special scripts for that matter. The application was originally written to save users the frustration they go through while opening multiple Finder windows in Mac Terminal for performing different tasks. Since the inception stages, Click2Shell has come a long way and the latest version - 1.2 is no longer dependent on BASH. It now supports tcsh(Tenex C Shell), tclsh (TCL Shell) and numerous other shells. Furthermore, it is also compatible with Mac Terminal emulators, including iTerm, iTerm2 and xTerm. Read More

Changing Terminal Colors In Ubuntu Linux

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Linux/Unix based system's real power lies in their terminal. If you have to work in the Ubuntu's terminal and you are not comfortable with it's default color, you can change it easily. Both background color and text color can be changed. Read More

Install and Use Lynx Browser on Ubuntu

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Lynx is a popular terminal based web browser on all flavors of Linux. Lynx displays plain ASCII text on your terminal, it does not displays any images or multimedia contents. Lynx loads web pages at command line (Terminal). Since it does not load images and flash material , so it is fast as compared to other browsers. You can navigate to different links of the web page by using arrow keys. Internet user with low system spec or compatibility issues prefer to use lynx. Read More

Install Flash Player In Ubuntu Using 3 Simple Steps

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If you are new to Ubuntu, you must be looking for a way to install Flash Player. Unlike Windows, installing flash player in Ubuntu is a bit tricky and is a 3 step procedure. Flash Player is now universally used in almost every websites, without Flash, browsing the web would make no sense. Below I have covered some simple steps that will get Flash installed on your Ubuntu OS instantly. Read More