Adding Color to & Customizing the Shell Prompt
As promised in the article on colorizing the terminal, let’s look at how to customize your bash prompt. First note that text as well as the following can be used in your string. \a – ASCII bell \d –...
View Articlephp from the Command Line
Using php at the command line isn’t an exact science in regard to which scripts that run in a web page will function from the shell. However, if you are automating many tasks, such as how you would go...
View ArticleAutomating Locations with networksetup
The new location options in networksetup are pretty interesting and while I’ve mentioned them in writings in the past I thought I would explore scripting against them, as they do reflect an interesting...
View ArticleProgramatically Clipboarding in Windows
My last article showed how to interface with the clipboard in Mac OS X. Windows 7 comes with the same feature, but instead of pbcopy it’s simply clip. Since you don’t ls, we’ll pipe the output of dir...
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RDP from the Command Line
Let’s face it, connecting to Windows Servers is a must for many of us. And some of us want to do so programatically. I did look at populating the CoRD database in a previous article. But now, luckily...
View ArticleProgramatically Secure Erasing Free Space
One of those security things that pops up every now and then is to use the secure erase feature of Mac OS X, located in Disk Utility. But you can access this same feature from the command line using...
View ArticleAdding Objects To The Dock
Using Mac OS X, one of the most trivial things (provided you have permission) is to add an object to the dock. Applications go on the left side of the dock and folders/documents/stacks go on the right....
View ArticleScripting FaceTime
I will go through long stretches without playing with new technology until I either get unbusy or get talked into figuring out how to do something remotely interesting with it. Like linking FaceTime up...
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Directory Services Scripting Changes in Lion
opendirectoryd Scripting directory services events is one of the most common ways that the OS X community automates post-imaging tasks. As such, there are about as many flavors of directory services...
View ArticleScripting in Google ChromeOS
I recently got my hands on one of those Google ChromeBooks (Cr-48). Interesting to have an operating system that is just a web browser. But, as anyone likely reading this article already knows, the...
View Articleiconutil
Sometimes you just have to convert an iconset file to an icns file. And who knew, Apple was kind enough to give us a command to do just that in OS X! To use the iconutil command, run it with the -c...
View ArticleBash: Check That A Script Is Running As Root
Pretty much every script I’m working on these days must be run as root. Checking what user is running something is pretty straight forward, as there’s a built-in shell variable for $USER that contains...
View ArticleProgramatically Clipboarding in Windows
My last article showed how to interface with the clipboard in Mac OS X. Windows 7 comes with the same feature, but instead of pbcopy it’s simply clip. Since you don’t ls, we’ll pipe the output of dir...
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RDP from the Command Line
Let’s face it, connecting to Windows Servers is a must for many of us. And some of us want to do so programatically. I did look at populating the CoRD database in a previous article. But now, luckily...
View ArticleProgramatically Secure Erasing Free Space
One of those security things that pops up every now and then is to use the secure erase feature of Mac OS X, located in Disk Utility. But you can access this same feature from the command line using...
View ArticleAdding Objects To The Dock
Using Mac OS X, one of the most trivial things (provided you have permission) is to add an object to the dock. Applications go on the left side of the dock and folders/documents/stacks go on the right....
View ArticleScripting FaceTime
I will go through long stretches without playing with new technology until I either get unbusy or get talked into figuring out how to do something remotely interesting with it. Like linking FaceTime up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Directory Services Scripting Changes in Lion
opendirectoryd Scripting directory services events is one of the most common ways that the OS X community automates post-imaging tasks. As such, there are about as many flavors of directory services...
View ArticleScripting in Google ChromeOS
I recently got my hands on one of those Google ChromeBooks (Cr-48). Interesting to have an operating system that is just a web browser. But, as anyone likely reading this article already knows, the...
View Articleiconutil
Sometimes you just have to convert an iconset file to an icns file. And who knew, Apple was kind enough to give us a command to do just that in OS X! To use the iconutil command, run it with the -c...
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