*wip Must have for your Mac Get homebrew – no longer drag an icon to install Homebrew – “the missing package manager for macOS” will make it so much easier to download, upgrade and maintain your packages. It will install packages super transparently in /usr/local/Cellar/* and symlink commands to /bin. Must have for node.js nvm a…
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How to protect your files from deletion
I wrote about this before, but its important enough to write twice How to revoke write permissions to a directory How to revoke your own user permissions $ chmod u-w dirname How to delete all permissions from anyone on your system $ chmod a-w dirname removing write access on a file does not stop it from…
Intro to OSX File Management Commands
Filenames can have spaces! So when you deal with them either surround the filename with apostrophes like this: “my file name.txt” or escape the spaces my\ file\ name.txt. Otherwise, don’t create new file names with spaces or escape characters to keep your sanity. Wildcards * greedy wildcard ? single character wildcard [] single character list of wildcards {} pattern list of…
Intro to your OS X Filesystem and Permissions
How to find home note: as a user of the system you will be given a user directory under the Users directory $ echo $HOME How to go to the home directory choices: $ cd $HOME, $ cd ~, $ cd, and $ cd then drag your home directory from your Finder window How to go to the…
Mac Unix Command Basics for Beginners
These are useful unix commands that are entered through a Terminal shell prompt. These commands are actually names of Unix programs that usually sit in a folder called /bin where am i? pwd How to check the current directory $ pwd learn more about anything – man How to bring up the manual page for a command:…
Setting up a new computer (Mac – applications)
Change these System Preferences immediately 1 – MAX OUT your Keyboard key repeat and shorten your delay 2 – Change your CAPS LOCK into (^ Control). Think about it, unless you are constantly yelling on the internet, you never really use CAPS LOCK Download these Apps * Alfred this is so much better than spotlight…
What are the Mac symbols?
Mac Symbols If you are loyal to your 2013 Macbook Air, here’s the new mac keyboard buttons. What is the mac symbol for Control? Control (or Ctrl) ⌃ The Control key was originally responsible for entering control characters (or non-printing characters) in terminal applications. The first mac did not have a control key but it was later…