Time Machine is great for the average consumer of Mac’s. You don’t need to think about backing up files it just does it for you. But sometimes you have to wonder, what exactly does Time Machine backup? Some times, when I haven’t do a lot file creating, it backups around 2Gb of files. Some clever person has created a small perl application that scans your Time Machine backup for changes and displays them in Terminal.
I like terminal, it is so powerful and useful. You can do so much with it. This little tip will show you how you can delete a lot of files, and certain types of files really quickly using Terminal. This tip carries a warning of “Insert Brain Before Doing Anything”, because if you type something incorrectly you can delete you entire hard drive, I am serious one little line and zip no more files. Anyway, I am going to use a bit of caution in this tutorial and you should to.
A while ago I mentioned a little tip much you can use to view the boot up text on you Mac. It enabled you to view the verbose output of all of the various commands that your computer uses during the boot phase. Kevin kindly left a comment mentioning how you can set the boot up text to be always visible. It doesn’t take long to implement. This tip does carry a warning of be careful. As you do edit system files that really can stop your Mac from booting up.
I like using Terminal, it is usually much more efficient and a lot quicker then the normal methods you use on your Mac. This post is about one widely used tool on UNIX and Linux systems, wget. Wget is a small program that can download files and folders to your computer through Terminal. There is already program similar to wget on your Mac, it is called curl. Although they do the same task, I prefer wget. When I tried curl on my computer it threw up lots of errors and problems. This post will tell you how to install wget and some simple basic usage. It is simple to do and really doesn’t take that long. I can’t take full credit for this tip, I took some of the steps from asitis.
Terminal, the wonder application, can do many things. This little trick, which I found over at BittBox, is to convert an image file from one format to another. Although you can save out images using preview or another graphical application. This is just as fun and just as simple. All you need is Terminal and a test file to test it out.
I’ve been playing around with multi file files today. Basically a file that is split up into smaller files for easy upload/download and transfer to other people. Today I am going to show you a quick and easy Terminal trick that can split any files into multiple parts. It is quick and nifty. As well as this since it is a Terminal command you don’t need therecipient to have any special software just a Mac.
