Questions tagged [darwin]
Darwin is the name of the UNIX layer underlying macOS and iOS. It contains elements from FreeBSD, NetBSD and if you install the optional Developer Tools, GNU user-land tools.
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Detect leaf directories in Perl
For a Perl script I'm working on, I'm looking for a fast and reliable way to find all subdirectories (transitively) of a given directory which are leaves, i.e. those not having any subdirectories of ...
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How to get 'man gfind' when I enter 'man find'?
On my new-ish mac os/Darwin system, my find tool is an 11-year-old BSD version. I have used MacPorts to install a more current version: GNU's find, which MacPorts has named gfind, and placed in /opt/...
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Is running MacOS software on Linux better than running Windows software on the latter? [closed]
MacOS's kernel is based on FreeBSD, Darwin, and a few other forgotten ones, all of which are monolithic, I believe. However, the current MacOS kernel, XNU, is hybrid, which is one of the things that ...
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cp fails with 'Resource busy'
I store RAW images (DNG) and my Apple Photos library on an external SSD (Rarely used, 1 year old).
Some files (approx. 2-5%) are corrupted. I face the following behavior:
Copy via Finder: Error 'File ...
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How do you rewind a file descriptor in bash without using a second file descriptor to read from the beginning in bash for Mac?
Environment: GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin20)
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exec 3<> "$(mktemp)" # open file descriptor 3 to a temp file for read/write
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Is there a darwin (arm64) equivalent of `O_PATH` for open?
I want to get the file descriptor without opening the file which can be attained by using the O_PATH flag on linux. (ref)
This flag doesn't seem to be there on darwin.
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I'm trying to use open ...
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Is there any convention for where one stores installed software?
I'm installing some software by cloning a git repo onto my local machine. I plan on creating a soft link to the binary made from the source in the repo to /usr/local/bin. Where should I put the git ...
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"locate" returns relative instead of absolute paths
One advised me to post here since this would be more appropriate (I am going to remove the previous one).
On my MacBook, I have the following entry in root's crontab:
0 */4 * * * cd /private/var/root &...
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Is there a way to detect a process called exec?
I'm interested in programmatically monitoring the state of a process (that isn't my own, and isn't a child of my own process). Is there a counter that increments, or an identifier that changes, etc. ...
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What do I need to do to update my commands?
My man page for 'whatis' does not match others I have found online. Namely, no options are available to use with it.
/home/User$ whatis -d ls
whatis: -d: unknown option
uname -srv
Darwin 16.7.0 Darwin ...
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least astonishment transgressed by `nl` on Darwin
Transgression of least astonishment:
bash-5.0$ (for i in {1..1000010}; do echo $i; done) | nl | tail -24
999987 999987
999988 999988
999989 999989
999990 999990
999991 999991
999992 999992
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What should be at /usr/local/bin on a new OSX
I want to remove all programs which I don't need from /usr/local/bin.
What are the list of programs (folders / files), which should be on a new OSX.
Currently, I have the following list:
2to3 ...
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No free space on system & locked out of recovery mode because firmware password, Linux to rescue? [closed]
This is a bit of a tragedy of circumstances.
I was deleting all free space on my latest install of OS X with
diskutil secureErase freespace 4 "/Volumes/Macintosh HD"
and unfortunately it failed. ...
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mv raised error message but file was moved
I confess I am not an expert on unix commands but I moved a file to another directory and got an error message - yet the file was moved. Why is this message 'mv: rename to to /Users/billtubbs/Library/...
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Compression size is bigger than actual directory size
I am on trying to archive a directory (a Time Machine backup) using:
tar -czf /Volumes/My\ Drive/archive.tar.gz my_directory
The archive process is going on at the moment. I am monitoring the ...
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