How to Find the EDID UUID of External Mac Monitors
December 9, 2022
You can issue the following command on an Apple Mac’s terminal to show the EDID UUID (unique serial number) of all attached external monitors:
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How to Disable Screensaver on Mac using the CLI
October 16, 2022
If you want to disable the Screensaver on your Mac, by using the Command Line Interface (CLI), then you can do the following:
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How to Install Homebrew on a Mac
September 21, 2022
Prerequisites You should have some familiarity with the Mac Terminal application since you’ll need to use it to install Homebrew.
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How to Setup Credential Helper for AWS CodeCommit
July 25, 2022
AWS CodeCommit is a git code repository service by Amazon Web Services.
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How to find all symlinks in a directory tree on Mac
April 27, 2022
If you need to recursively find all symbolic links in a directory tree on a Mac, then you have a couple of options.
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How to Bulk Move All Email from One Account to Another using the CLI
April 8, 2022
If you find yourself in a position where you need to sync all emails from one account to another, then you can use the imapsync command-line tool to bulk copy, or move everything for you.
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How to Reboot Networking on Mac from CLI
April 6, 2022
If you need to reboot, or restart the networking interface on your Mac, by using the CLI, then you can issue the following commands:
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How to Change the Timestamp of a File on Mac/Linux
February 17, 2022
If you have a file on your machine, and you want to change the created/modified time/date stamp, then you can use the touch command.
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How to update/upgrade all Homebrew packages
December 11, 2021
If you use Homebrew – and you probably should if you’re on a Mac – then you have probably installed various different applications and packages as time went on.
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[Solved] Error: Cannot find module ‘../lib/cli.js’
December 9, 2021
If you try and run npm i and get Error: Cannot find module '.
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[Solved] Permission denied @ apply2files – /usr/local/lib/node_modules/expo-cli/node_modules/extglob/lib
December 4, 2021
If you have recently upgraded your MacOS operating system, you may get the following error in your terminal when installing some Homebrew packages:
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How to Enable Syntax Highlighting in Vim
November 24, 2021
There are a few different ways to enable Syntax Highlighting in Vim.
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How to Generate a Random AlphNumeric String in Linux/MacOS
November 11, 2021
If you need to generate a random AlphaNumeric string from the Linux/MacOS Command-Line, then you can use the following script:
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What temperature does your Mac CPU idle at?
September 10, 2021
Sometimes you will find that your Mac is running very hot, and you may want to keep track of it over time to see if it’s persistent or only a spike.
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How to Fix the ‘Bad Interpreter’ Error from AWS and Python 3.7
August 3, 2021
This error often looks something like: .zshrc: /usr/local/bin/aws: bad interpreter: /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.
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How to solve AttributeError: ‘int’ object has no attribute ‘split’ – make: [sharedmods] Error 1
July 23, 2021
If you get the following error while trying to install something via Homebrew
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How to Restart Sound Driver on a Mac
May 27, 2021
So for some strange reason, your audio has stopped playing through the Macbook Pro speakers, but if you plug in an external audio device, it still works?
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How to tell what the CHMOD value of a file/directory is
November 21, 2020
chmod alters the permissions for a file or directory, you could allow full read/write access to a file or directory by running the following command:
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How to find all files in a directory with extension
August 30, 2020
I needed to find all files in a directory on Linux that ended with the file extension .
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How to Quickly Hide all Icons on a Mac’s Desktop
July 3, 2020
Why the need to hide icons? Perhaps you have a screen-share session coming up and you want a nice clean desktop to show everyone.
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Get the total size of all the files in a directory
May 23, 2020
It’s amazing how many times I’ve need to find out the total size of all the files in a directory on one of our servers.
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Remove Special Characters in a String using Bash
March 8, 2020
Programming languages provide the ability to remove special characters from a string quite easily.
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How to Install MongoDB on Mac
January 4, 2020
You can use Homebrew to install MongoDB on a Mac.
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How to install a Ruby Gem without Root on a Mac
October 1, 2018
Gems are little packaged Ruby applications that allow you to extend the ecosystem and reuse countless online sources.
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Show the desktop’s image name on a Mac
September 23, 2018
Sometimes you just need to know where that image shown on your desktop is stored!
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