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The Unix shell which was the default shell in macOS until 10.15

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In bash (3.2.57) on MacOS 15.7.4, command line regular expressions are normally case sensitive, but when you list a range of characters, such as [a-z], the result is case insensitive. This is a ...
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Some years ago Apple dropped support for my ancient Canon Lide 30 scanner. So, I hung it off a Raspberry Pi (which still supports the scanner via scanimage) and wrote a very simple Apple Script and an ...
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I'm in the situation of having to connect to various systems via ssh to do some quick work and then leave without a trace. Before I do any work, however, I would like to set up some aliases to save ...
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I'm trying to add certain subnets to my route table after launching an IKEv2 VPN tunnel from my Mac. I understand that this behaviour can be achieved by placing an executable ip-up file in /etc/ppp/ ...
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I have always used bash for work, and never had problems with it. Now, it does not save any command in history again. If I open a window terminal, try some commands, it acts like everything has ...
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I discovered https://github.com/keith/reminders-cli and found it supports also json. How can I use it with jq to add a new entry with desired attribute? I tried the following json_string=$(jq -n --arg ...
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I recently purchased an external keyboard (non-apple) that is used at home and also dragged along with me from time to time, and I've noticed a need. My Mac is in English, as well as its physical ...
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My login shell is zsh, the default in macOS Sequoia. However, I'm used to bash and so my .zshrc simply does exec /bin/bash. Pressing command-T in a Terminal window should open a new tab at the current ...
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In AutoHotKey, using the keyword "ExitApp" can allow the user to stop a script with a keypress. For example, Esc::ExitApp can stop a script by pressing "esc". Now, with a ...
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#!/bin/bash # Download Installomator curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Installomator/Installomator/main/Installomator.sh -o /usr/local/bin/Installomator chmod +x /usr/local/bin/...
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On macOS, I get a system popup when running UI tests in GitHub saying: “bash” is requesting to bypass the system private window picker and directly access your screen and audio. How can I disable ...
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I would like to get all files from the web page below using curl: http://www.ime.usp.br/~coelho/mac0122-2013/ep2/esqueleto/ I tried: curl http://www.ime.usp.br/~coelho/mac0122-2013/ep2/esqueleto/ It ...
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In the preferences of the Terminal App, you can set custom ANSI colors for blue, green, yellow, bright red, etc. but they don't actually change anything in the Shell. For example using ls -G still ...
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I have moved to macbook pro from linux recently and I do have quite a big bash history (over 200000 commands). Unfortunately while using bash history in macOS I have noticed that if I pipe history ...
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Objective is to determine the last password change time for all the user accounts in macOS (Catalina). sudo dscl . -read Users/swastibhushandeb accountPolicyData Output: <dict> <key>...
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