Questions tagged [macos]
macOS (formerly known as OS X or Mac OS X) is the desktop operating system from Apple, found on Macintosh computers.
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Simple CodeReview Questions Notifications for OSX
Some days ago, I figured out that I'd like to get a notification every time a new question is asked here. So, I've made a really simple Python script, which uses ...
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Wi-fi scheduler written in C
I'm new to C and programming in general (some minimal prior exposure to JS and python). This is also my first time working with shell commands, scripts, and cron. This program works on my macOS and ...
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Pure Swift solution for socket programming
I have spend quite some time now to find out how exactly to do socket programming in Swift (Xcode 6.1). There are a few examples out there, but most of them no longer work for the latest release of ...
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Canonical Implementation of a Subclass of NSOperation
I would like to develop a kind of template or canonical implementation for a concurrent subclass of NSOperation.
Edit: there is a related request which implements ...
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Reporting new USB storage devices on Linux and macOS with Python
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I wanted something for macOS (and Linux; maybe eventually Windows) that would simply wait for the user to connect a storage device and automatically select, or otherwise output the ...
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realpath substitute with --relative-to and --relative-base support
In a bash 3 script for OSX machines, I needed the functional equivalent of the realpath command, complete with support for the ...
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Spoofs MAC Address to manufacturer of user's choice, Linux or MacOS
I've made a BASh script for Linux/MacOS that allows you to search for a MAC manufacturer and then generates a MAC address from that company and then spoofs it to that using ...
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File path unified in Windows/MacOS/Linux
We are all tremendously happy about back slashes in Windows file systems and do not think that their sole purpose is to make life complicated for smart people who are capable of using different OS. ...
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Script to temporarily drop admin privileges
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The aim of my project is to allow administrators to drop privileges for reasons of self-control. Currently, it works only on MacOS Sierra but the concept should be extensible to any Unix ...
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Reading OS X file tags
I'm investigating Go for use in our internal network / office project management system, and need a way to check and edit the color tags that you can set in Finder on files or folders (extended ...
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Play Snake Game on Mac OS Terminal using C with ncurses Library
Made a simple snake game in C.
I am just having some fun with program and using this as a spring board of knowledge in hopes to get some confidence to maybe try different kinds of projects. I am ...
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SSH chatting tool
I have taught myself some bash and already knew some AppleScript, so I have come up with this SSH chatting tool for OS X users. It allows you to chat from a terminal to another OS X computer.
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A replacement for OSX's path_helper
I was having problems setting my path the way I wanted, I turned to Apple's path_helper but found it appends system dirs to the beginning of the path. I found someone had made a start on a replacement ...
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Timer UI-updating implementation for educational purposes
I thought it would be helpful to put together an example of what I'm talking about in the second part of my answer to this Stack Overflow question.
The idea is that there's some data that is updated ...
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Mounting a disk with the DiskArbitration framework
I have the following code that makes use of the DiskArbitration framework to mount a disk to its default location:
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