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Terminal Tips: Using the Command Line With Style

Written on March 26, 2009 by Andrew Bednarz and 14 people have commented

As great and as easy as the OS X user interface is, sometimes it is quicker or necessary to jump into the deep dark bowels of your system on the command line. OS X ships with the very competent Terminal.app that allows easy access to this, but the default view into your machine is dull [...]

The Secrets Are Out Thanks To BlackTree

Written on July 07, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 2 people have commented

(Let me preface this post with a warning that tweaking unpublished settings can break your system and applications.)
While I am a fan of the Terminal, sometimes remembering (or Googling for) the proper “defaults write …” undocumented setting to tweak a feature on a new build or a friend’s machine gets a bit annoying (mostly due [...]