Terminal.app 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.
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To resize all PNG-images in the current folder to 600px width
find . -name "*.png" -type f -exec sips --resampleWidth 600 {} \;
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To put in a “.thumbnail” in the file name
for file in *.png; do mv $file ${file/.png/.thumbnail.png}; done
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When I needed to know how many tracks we (Pluxemburg) sent to ITMS
`find Music/iTunes\ Producer/Playlists -name metadata.xml -exec grep “
” {} \; | wc -l`
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Copy a file to our Burnfield server (instead of launching a FTP-client)
scp myfile burnfield@bidwell.textdrive.com:
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Basic, but to view the apache error log
tail /var/log/httpd/error_log
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To view the source of this site’s feed
curl "http://burnfield.com/martin/feed" | head
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And how FeedBurner gets it
curl --user-agent FeedBurner "http://burnfield.com/martin/feed" | head