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Macintosh Tips

, 09. August 2011, kent,

Bash Alias Commands

• View them all: $ alias
• Place them into the file ~/.profile to use them in all terminal windows
• Some examples:
  • Xcode from command line:
    • Define: alias xcode=/Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS
    • Use: $ xcode FILE
  • TextEdit from command line:
    • Define: alias te=/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit
    • Use: $ te FILE

Booting

• Boot in verbose mode as default: $ sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

Disk Management

• Change partition size: sudo diskutil resizeVolume

Mail

• Set mail.app to prefer text mail: $ defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool TRUE

Open files with default application

• $ open FILE

Secure erase (remove)

• $ srm [OPTION]... FILE...