Martin Ström » geek http://my-domain.se Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Terminal.app usage http://my-domain.se/terminalapp-usage/ http://my-domain.se/terminalapp-usage/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:09:11 +0000 Martin http://burnfield.com/martin/2006/04/07/terminalapp-usage/ The other day, Oskar Karlin asked me how and when I use the OS X Terminal app instead of e.g. the Finder. I’m not by any means a hard core command line guy but ther are often and often situations where the Terminal is faster or/and easier to use for the specific thing.

  • To resize all PNG-images in the current folder to 600px width find . -name "*.png" -type f -exec sips --resampleWidth 600 {} \;

  • To put in a “.thumbnail” in the file name for file in *.png; do mv $file ${file/.png/.thumbnail.png}; done

  • When I needed to know how many tracks we (Pluxemburg) sent to ITMS find Music/iTunes\ Producer/Playlists -name metadata.xml -exec grep "<track>" {} \; | wc -l

  • Copy a file to our Burnfield server (instead of launching a FTP-client) scp myfile burnfield@bidwell.textdrive.com:

  • Basic, but to view the apache error log tail /var/log/httpd/error_log

  • To view the source of this site’s feed curl "http://burnfield.com/martin/feed" | head

  • And how FeedBurner gets it curl --user-agent FeedBurner "http://burnfield.com/martin/feed" | head

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