Tag Archive | "Unix"
How To Add Cron or Cron-like Jobs To Mac (With MAMP or Otherwise)
The Mac runs on Unix, which makes it incredibly powerful. You might be running MAMP or a stand-alone version of Apache, and one of the things that you might want to run is cron, which is a scheduling tool. Instead of cron though, you could actually have your Mac just run a launch daemon. Just [...]
Continue reading...How To Find The Location Of An Executable Program In The Mac Terminal
Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Mac platform is amazing, and what makes it even more powerful is that it’s running on Unix, so you have the incredible power of bash and the shell terminal at your disposal. For instance, what takes 5 clicks and 30 minutes of your time might just be solved by running one command in Terminal [...]
Continue reading...How To Make and Run Batch Files In Terminal In Mac OSX
Monday, January 11, 2010
I use batch files sometimes when I was using Windows because it saves a lot of time when you need to run a batch of commands frequently. With a batch file, you save all the commands into one file, and just run the batch file, instead of your gazillion commands individually. I was facing the [...]
Continue reading...Recursively Delete Selected Files or Folders In Windows
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
I was looking around for a way to recursively delete files and folders of a specific name in Windows. For example, imagine having “/folderA/folderB/file1.doc” and “/folderA/folderC/file1.doc”, and I wanted to remove all instances of file1.doc. Now imagine this file1.doc being presented in hundreds of folders. Deleting each file manually would drive anyone crazy. I know [...]
Continue reading...How do I create and remove a symbolic link?
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
I was fiddling around with symbolic links in my unix box and realised how cool they were. Basically symbolic links (or symlinks) create a virtual copy of the master file. This virtual copy has almost 100% of the master’s functionalities and characteristics (you’ll need to play around with the owner and file permissions sometimes though), [...]
Continue reading...Bookmark Bridge Review and Screenshot
Friday, December 21, 2007
I use both Firefox and Internet Explorer, and one of the pet peeves that I have is that both of them don’t share bookmarks / favourites. This is a problem because when I save a site in Firefox, I want to be able to access it in Internet Explorer and vice versa. Well, here’s the [...]
Continue reading...Clearing your web browser’s cache (IE, Firefox, Safari)
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Some browsers automatically cache a webpage that you visit by default, and serve that cached webpage the next time you visit. That’s a problem especially if the page is constantly updated, because your cached version will be showing you outdated information. So sometimes, you’ll find yourself needing to clear your browser’s cache. Here’s how to [...]
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Monday, March 1, 2010
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