Aperture (OSX) to run on Catalina using Retroactive
Aperture will not function beyond OSX Mojave (10.14.6) due to its use of a few 32-bit libraries. Retroactive – solves this by a work around, disabling the features that make … Read More
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bash – awk if then else snippet
A clear example of the if/then/else structure formatting in awk. 123456789$ awk ‘ BEGIN { FS="," ; FORMAT="%-10s%-8s%s\n" ; {printf FORMAT,"A","B","% age"} } { … Read More
bash – awk with colored output
Coloring text in columns of output of awk. 12echo "line 1 line 2" | awk ‘/line/ {print "\033[32m" $1 "\033[31m" $2 }’ results in: line1 line2 Color is given by … Read More
bash: for – looping to repeat commands
A one liner to repeat a task/process N number of times. Perform 5 times: 1for n in {1..5}; do <command>; done</command> Add a function to .bashrc / .bash_profile: 1234567function run() … Read More
bash – df to get space usage by volume
1234567891011#display current Volume in 1024-byte blocks df -k . #display ALL Volumes in megabytes df -m #display /home Volume in gigabytes df -g /home #display ALL Volumes … Read More
bash – pass arguments with flags to script
Pass arguments in any order, with ability to have some of the flags optional: 12345678910while getopts u:d:p:f: option do case "${option}" in u) USER=${OPTARG};; d) DATE=${OPTARG};; p) PRODUCT=${OPTARG};; f) FORMAT=${OPTARG};; … Read More
TBDB – imdb alternative with flexible API
DROP imdb – move search terms to TMdb *crowd-sourced, comfortable API *fewer details than imdb, but the content more than outweighs the limits in terms of usability. TMdb – main … Read More