Apple Mail – create folder and sub-folder structure
Apple Mail gives errors while trying to make a FOLDER and a SUB-FOLDER consecutively. 1. Folder __AAAA__TEST__ is created on the “On My Mac” root. 2. Right-click, to create a … Read More
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OSX: Set any password via terminal
To change minimum password length to 1 pwpolicy getaccountpolicies > temp.xml nano temp.xml Erase until first string is <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> Find string <string>policyAttributePassword matches '^$|.{1,}+'</string> Replace {4,} with {1,} … Read More
Aperture (OSX) to run on Catalina using Retroactive
Aperture will not function beyond OSX Mojave (10.14.6) due to its use of a few 32-bit libraries. Retroactive – solves this by a work around, disabling the features that make … Read More
bash – awk if then else snippet
A clear example of the if/then/else structure formatting in awk. 123456789$ 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