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Show/Hide hidden files in Leopard -
Sep 2009
CLI to show and hide hidden files in Mac OS X.5 To reveal hidden files: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool yes killall Finder To hide them again: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool no killall Finder
Show/Hide hidden files in Tiger -
Sep 2009
CLI to show and hide hidden files in Mac OS X.4 To reveal hidden files: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true killall Finder To hide them again: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool false killall Finder
Make removable disks stay mounted -
Sep 2009
In Tiger and Panther all "Removable" disks are unmounted when there is no one logged into the GUI. A solution is to create a file in the following location: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount.plist and then place these contents in that file and save it: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin</key><true/> </dict> </plist> If this does not immediately work for keeping the drives mounted all the time, please restart the system, not just log off.
Open Man Pages in Preview.app -
Sep 2009
Use the following command at the command line in tiger and/or leopard: pman() { man -t "${@}" | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app/; } you can then enter a second command such as: pman ls to get the man page of ls converted to a PDF and viewable in preview.app If you would like to include this into your .bash_profile or .profile file then it will be always ready to use whenever you open up a terminal window.
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