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Archive for the ‘Terminal’ Category

I was today years old when I found there is a shortcut to switch to the Terminal tab in Visual Studio Code

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/12

Boy, I always to the Ctrl+Shift+Space on Microsoft Windows (or on MacOS Command+Shift+Space) detour to switch to the Terminal tab in Visual Studio Code

So I was amazed to find the shortcut inside the first bullet in the Google Search quote of the first result at [Wayback/Archive] vscode terminal open new terminal – Recherche Google:

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I really dislike MacOS choosing machine names, and having the long machine names and short hostnames in separate places to change (one of them command-line only)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/05

After installing my Apple Silicon MacBook, I found out my machine had gotten named automatically in two different ways:

  1. readable name Jeroen’s Macbook Pro
  2. full name Jeroens-MacBook-Pro
  3. local hostname Jeroens-MacBook-Pro.local
  4. actual hostname Jeroens-MBP
  5. HostName from scutil

A few reasons I dislike that:

  • Having 5 different names for the same machine creates a mess
  • They chose for me where I like to choose myself
  • They use spaces, quotes and hyphens where I like single a complete word
  • They use mixed case where I like single case (preferably lower case) as not all other computers handle mixed case well

Finding out how to fix all this was a tedious job as I had to keep refining queries:

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Posted in Apple, Apple Silicon, ARM Mac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook-Pro, Power User, Terminal | Leave a Comment »

Preventing to eject/unmount a MacOS drive (opposite of figuring out what prevents the unmount)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/01

Not long after Figuring out which processes are preventing to eject/unmount my MacOS Time Machine backup USB drive, I wanted to do the opposite: prevent /Volumes/Sandisk1TB from being ejected, as this is the “built-in” MicroSD card I use to store large or infrequently used files on (ISO and other disk images, drivers, hardware and software documentation, stuff to be installed on a fresh machine).

The opposite is straightforward: have a process keep at least one handle open on the Volume as per [Wayback] macos – How do I not accidentally eject external drives? – Ask Different (thanks [Wayback] kLy, [Wayback] dan and [Wayback] gerlos):

If your important external drive is mounted on the following mount point:

/Volumes/important_disk

Then you can protect it against an accidental removal by locking this mount point as opened. For this one very simple method consists in opening Terminal and doing this basic command:

$ cd /Volumes/important_disk

To get rid of this locking, you might type within the same Terminal window:

$ cd /

or you might as well just close this Terminal window ($ exit, or ⌃+D, or ⌘+W).

…

An even more elegant way to do it is open a screen session (just type screen in Terminal) and open the mount point from that session. This way you can even close Terminal, since the session will keep running in the background, until you reattach it and stop it (so there’s no need to keep a window open if you don’t need it). I guess you can even create an Automator action for it. For tips on screen see: [Wayback] kinnetica.com/2011/05/29/using-screen-on-mac-os-x

–jeroen

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veltman/clmystery: A command-line murder mystery; an interactive tutorial for learning the *n*x command-line

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/18

Since I’m on a series of interactive tutorial sites, yesterday’s The SQL Murder Mystery made me bump into a project by [Archive] Noah Veltman (@veltman) / Twitter: [Wayback/Archive] veltman/clmystery: A command-line murder mystery

There’s been a murder in Terminal City, and TCPD needs your help.

To figure out whodunit, you need access to a command line.

Once you’re ready, clone this repo, or download it as a zip file.

Open a Terminal, go to the location of the files, and start by reading the file ‘instructions’.

I did a quick [Archive] clmystery – Twitter Search / Twitter and found the first ever Twitter mention to be this one from 2013 (boy, have I been living under a stone <g>): [Archive] RoR Group on Twitter: “A command-line murder mystery (clmystery) …” / Twitter.

Cool things:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, Development, Interactive Tutorials, Learning/Teaching, LifeHacker, Linux, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Software Development, Terminal | 2 Comments »