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How do I disable indexing in a specific directory across multiple platforms?
I have some files that will be accessed across several platforms (Mac OS X and Windows 7 mainly, but I wouldn't rule out Linux in the future) and I do not want these files indexed by the search ...
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POSTing a file's contents with CURL
(The following is backstory, you can jump down to "Question:" if you'd like)
There's a webpage for one of my courses that accepts input text (expected to be Python code) and then gives some tokenized ...
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If, else based on command piped to grep
I can't figure out how to make this (what supposed to be simple) script to work. Basically what I want, to run different stuff based on the state of my Parallels vm, something like this:
if [ prlctl ...
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Getting UEFI shell when trying to boot OS X in Virtual Box
I am using the latest test build of Virtual Box (normal versions don't work on El Capitan).
When trying to boot a Virtual Machine with an El Capitan cdr file (created from the command line) I end up ...
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Syncing bash profile between computers
I have tons of stuff in my .bash_profile. The problem is, I use ~3 computers very frequently, and I'm tired of having to copy paste my prefs everywhere. Two of them run Ubuntu 10.10, and one runs OSX. ...
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How to force to restart firefox in a clean way?
Many times when I upgrade the system under Linux, firefox pops up a window suggesting to restart the program in order to make effective all the changes.
When I ignore that windows because of an ...
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netem for Mac OS X to emulate network latency and dropped packets
I'm looking for an open source/free network emulator tool that I could use on Mac OS X, to simulate a slow network connection, limited bandwidth and other network characteristics such as dropped ...
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How to share files between Ubuntu and Mac OS X [closed]
Is there any links/tutorials/videos that helps me share files between Ubuntu and Mac OS X?
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Sending key via ssh or using mouse to activate Target Display Mode?
Is it possible to send a keystroke via SSH? I want to be able to send ⌘ (CMD)+F2 via ssh from/to Mac OS X. If that's not possible, a mouse solution would also be good.
The reason I need this is ...
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Address VMWare Fusion Linux guest by hostname?
I have a Ubuntu Server 9.04 image set up in VMWare Fusion 3.0.0, using the NAT option for the guest's network connection. From the Mac host, I can ssh to the linux guest just fine using it's IP ...
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What is the difference between terminal and bash? [duplicate]
When I open Terminal Window in Mac OS X, I can type bash and hit enter and I will see:
Last login: Fri Feb 20 14:30:56 on ttys000
Korays-MacBook-Pro:~ koraytugay$ bash
bash-3.2$
I can for example ...
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Rsync over ssh, or something else?
I've been trying to use rsync on OSX to Linux or Unix box over which I don't have much control. I've been doing something like this
rsync -avz -e ssh remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir /this/dir/
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Watch Filesystem in Real Time on OS X and Ubuntu
I'm looking for a CLI tool which will watch a directory and spit out the names of files that change in real time.
some_watch_command /path/to/some/folder | xargs some_callback
I'm aware of inotify (...
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Why does htop on Mac OS X require root privileges to see data for all processes, but on Linux it runs without root
I use htop all the time when I'm working on Linux system. I've installed htop-osx through Homebrew on my Mac, but in order to see all data for all processes, the formula tells me that I need to run ...
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How do I get GNU screen not to start in my home directory in OS X?
GNU Screen (screen) behaves differently on OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard) compared to Linux (at least Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Gentoo) and OS X 10.4 (Tiger). In 10.5 and 10.6, new screens (...
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