Path Finder

AppleSystemProfiler | grep Applications >> ~/installedApps.txt It launches the GUI version of Apple System Profiler, but then it pipes the results of the "Applications" tab through a grep seach and then outputs the result to a text file in your home directory. Simple and clean. (Leave off the '>> ~/installedApps.txt' if you want it to output directly to the shell and not to...

General Mac OS X Hidden Files Get past icon changing bug in Finder OS X folder and file copying problems Automatically mount network volumes on login Make the Shared directory behave as a truly shared directory Finder & Safari keyboard shortcuts Get rid of Safari's brushed metal look List your installed applications Duplicate a CD/DVD-ROM via the command line

Drag a finder icon into terminal. You will get full path. Press 'return'. ...

Well I don't know how the Windows model stores files and protects them from piracy, but the Apple version makes it easy. % l total 0 drwxrwxrwx 46 gwailo unknown 1520 Nov 15 14:25 F00 drwxrwxrwx 54 gwailo unknown 1792 Nov 15 01:55 F01 drwxrwxrwx 47 gwailo unknown 1554 Nov 15 01:56 F02 drwxrwxrwx 50 gwailo unknown 1656 Nov 15 01:56 F03 drwxrwxrwx 54 gwailo...

meone who doesn't know anything about computers, but I've used datasettes myself and also have a history of knowing operating systems. I've not only followed the path from Macintosh System 3 to Mac OS X 10.x, I've also followed DOS 3. ...

group. This makes the use of NetInfo mandantory. Things like dragging a folder onto a command line to have its path typed before your eyes is way cool. ...

this sounds like the situation I'm having with creating a new Finder window at the current path when I envoke the shortcut key... ...

There is a program called "Open Terminal Here" that you can put in your Finder window toolbars, or you could drag a directory to the terminal to get the path that way. ...

I was just peeking into the Longhorn thread and thinking to myself... this is nice, but what's in store for Apple over the next few years? I'm really getting into OS X--I've been waiting for this for a long time. At the same time I see a lot of great things being poured into the Windows side, and I can't help but wonder when, or if, we will have similar features Windows...