In case you’re working in Terminal on your Mac, you have to know the most critical UNIX commands: those that work with registries, those that work with files, and incidental however regularly utilized commands.
Organizers are called registries in UNIX. Commands that allude to filenames, as most do, accept that you’re discussing files in the working index. When you open the Terminal window, the working catalog is set to your home index, truncated ~. Bash demonstrates to you the present working registry and your username to one side of its incite. The accompanying table records basic index related commands.
Disable Lion/Mountain Lion’s Pop-up Accent Window
For individuals like me who write a great deal of remote accents then the fly up highlight window that surfaced when you hold down a letter for a more extended period is to a great degree valuable. Be that as it may, for those of you who need to write heaps of rehash letters, it can be very irritating. Utilize this straightforward trap to disable it:
defaults write – g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled – bool false
Hit Return at that point log out then back in again to see the progressions. On the off chance that you need to change back to the standard, at that point just substitute false for true in the above.
Change the Default Backup Periods in Time Machine
Of course, Time Machine moves down each hour when it’s associated yet this can be changed through Terminal. To do as such, just enter the accompanying command:
sudo defaults write/System/Library/Launch Daemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval – int 1800
This sets aside a few minutes Machine reinforcement now like clockwork. To transform it to what you need, just supplant the 1800 with the interim time in seconds (so 15 minutes would be 900 seconds, hence enter 900). Likewise know that you are utilizing a sudo command, so ensure that you’ve written the command precisely just before you hit Enter (and you’ll additionally be incited to enter your framework secret word).
Drag Dashboard Widgets onto the Desktop
I generally overlook that the Dashboard exists on my Mac. Truth be told, I hardly ever observe a requirement for it. Be that as it may, I feel that is mostly down to the way that the gadgets are concealed away inside the working framework. To have the capacity to drag your Dashboard gadgets onto your desktop, at that point enter the accompanying command:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
You should log out then back in again and to drag a gadget onto your desktop snap and hold down on it at that point press F12, which rejects it from the Dashboard and enables you to drop it onto the desktop. Your gadgets now glide above open applications, like the Gadgets on Windows 7.
To disable this element, just supplant YES with NO in the above command. Once more, you’ll need to log out at that point back in once more, tragically.
Disable Lion/Mountain Lion’s Auto-reestablish Feature
This extremely irritated me when I initially moved up to Lion – the way that when you open up something like Preview, all your as of late got to PDFs coming flying up in your face, regardless of whether you closed them down legitimately. Shockingly there’s no all inclusive command to disable it across the whole OS so you’ll need to do it for every individual program. In the event that you need to disable it for Preview, at that point enter the accompanying command:
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows – bool false
QuickTime is another guilty party in my eyes, again simply enter:
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows – bool false
Ensure you quit and restart the applications to see the progressions and in the event that you need to invert anything, basically substitute false for true (I’m certain you’re getting the hang of this at this point!).
Show Hidden Files in Finder
As a matter of course, the Finder in OS X conceals a few files far from see (mostly superfluous ones) however in the event that you need to see everything on your PC, at that point enter in the accompanying command:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
Once more, substitute false for true to shroud them once more.
Duplicate the substance of an organizer starting with one place then onto the next
Of course, you can Option-drag any file to another area to make a duplicate of it, however in the event that you need to improve the procedure and naturally duplicate the whole substance of one organizer to another, look at this basic Terminal trap.
same – V ~/unique/organizer/~/new/envelope/
Download files outside of your program
Have the URL to a file yet would prefer not to utilize Safari, Firefox, or Chrome to download it? You can experience Terminal with the accompanying commands:
compact disc ~/Downloads/
twist – O http://www.thefilename.com/thefile/url.mp3
The principal command moves your present Terminal area to your Downloads organizer; the second downloads it from the web to that envelope.
Changing screenshots
Need to change how your screenshots look? Here are a few commands to enable you to do only that.
Change your screenshot’s file arrange
This Terminal command gives you a chance to change the file arrangement of your screenshots. As a matter of course, they’re spared as PNGs, yet you can likewise spare them as PDFs, JPGs, and the sky is the limit from there.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture sort jpg
Disable drop shadows on a screenshot
Here’s another great one on the off chance that you tend to take a considerable measure of screenshots: This command will disable drop-shadow on your screenshots, just showing the window you’ve snapped.
$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow – bool TRUE
Make another default name conspire for screenshots
Try not to like the expression Apple uses to spare your screenshots? Generally, it’s “Screen Shot – [date] – [time]”, yet you can change “Screen Shot” to any word you please.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture name “New Screen Shot Name”
killall SystemUIServer
Get exhausted of your new name conspire? Backpedal to the default by writing as takes after:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture name
killall SystemUIServer