Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/01
cd /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Joshua\ Priddle’s\ MacBook\ Pro/Latest/Macintosh\ HD/Users/priddle
tmutil restore -v secret_docs.txt ~/
Learned from [WayBack] Restoring files from OS X Time Machine with Terminal.app:
cp as it will give you wrong permissionstmutilMore elaborate steps (including finding the backup in the first place) is at [WayBack] Commandline restoration of a file in Time Machine on OS X | Hacks for Macs
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11
Yet another reason I love SwitchResX: : How-To: Automatically change your Mac’s display resolution when running specific apps [Video] | 9to5Mac
A few years ago, SwitchResX helped me switch my Mac machine to 1360×768 and 1888×1062 « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/03
I always forget which OS X versions there are and which names they use.
So via: OS X – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, I made this list where the first item points to the table in the above article and each subsequent item to the individual article on the version. I tried to find EOL dates, but that’s hard despite the overview at Apple security updates – Apple Support:
–jeroen
PS: EOL dates are as of 20160403.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/27
iMovie on a 2010 iMac was starting and running slow. During startup, it wasn’t using much memory, but during editing it did: less than 2 gigabyte out of 8 gigabyte free memory left.
The hard-disk was like 30% full, there wasn’t much in the cache, few processes were auto-starting and the recycle bin was almost empty.
So my first thought was adding more RAM (which is easy): duplicating it to 16 megabyte was easy and not expensive when you look at the Amazon prices for it.
After that it was faster, but not really fast: especially the loading was still slow (less slow than before, but still taking minutes).
Then I scanned for permission issues and there were quite a few as the machine had been getting updates since 2010. So I repaired the permissions using disk utility.
Now iMovie loaded much faster as well: in under a minute.
So out of 17 Ways to Speed Up Mac OS X Lion – ChrisWrites.com, only 2 steps were really needed so far.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/08
On most systems, I use bash as shell, but not all systems have it, for instance the shell.xs4all.nl server uses tcsh and ESXi 4+ uses a very limited ash shell from busybox (ESX 4 had bash though).
There is this huge script that covers many shell and operating system versions (even DOS, Windows) and interpreters (python, ruby, php, etc) what shell is this which I got through Stéphane Chazelas‘s answer in linux – determine shell in script during runtime – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
I wanted a shorter thing that works in current Linux, BSD, OS X and ESXi versions.
Some very short scripts are less reliable, for instance echo $SHELL looks nice, but isn’t always set.
Similar for echo $0 which will fail for instance if it shows as sh but in fact is a different shell in disguise.
This works for bash, tcsh and busybox sh, is a bit more precise than getting $0. It’s based on HOWTO: Detect bash from shell script – Stack Overflow:
lsof -p $$ | awk '(NR==2) {print $1}'
But on ESXi it shows this because lsof doesn’t take any parameter there and just dumps all information:
----------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+------------------
It’s because lsof on ESXi always shows this header where Cartel and World aren’t exactly well documented:
Cartel | World name | Type | fd | Description
----------+---------------------+---------------------+--------+------------------
Empirically for non VM related processes, it looks like the Cartel is the PID and World name the command.
On Linux and BSD based systems, the header looks like this, so command and PID are reversed in ESXi:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
This command then works on both ESXi, OS X, Linux and BSD assuming you can word search for the PID and noting that PID/command will be reversed on ESXi as compared to OSX/Linux/BSD:
lsof -p $$ | grep -w $$ | awk '(NR==2) {print $1,$2}'
–jeroen
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