Category: Apple
Removing certain text in multiple filenames in OS X
I had a large number of ebooks that looked like the following: Walter%20Isaacson%20-%20Einstein_His%20Life%20And%20Universe.mobi And because I’m lazy, I looked for an automated way to clean all of them up. This is how: 1. Back up all your files in another directory2. Launch terminal3. Go to the directory you’d like to perform the changes4. Type: for…
Restarting a frozen Dock in OS X Lion
Open Applications > Utilities > Terminal > type killall Dock. Voila!
Pretty-print XML or jSon via the Terminal in OS X
Simply copy the jSon or XML into your clipboard and then run one of the following: pbpaste | python -m json.tool > formatted.json For XML: pbpaste | xmllint –format – > formatted.xml
Mounting network folders using SSH on OS X Lion
It’s easy as clapping your hands! Just get Macfusion and use the GUI to mount to any *nix-based systems.
Fix for soapUI freezing on Mac OS X Lion
soapUI-Pro-4.5.1 kept on freezing on me intermittently on my MacBook Pro. The cause of the problem is the jxbrowser browser component. To fix it, do the following: Close/kill soapUI /Applications/SmartBear/soapUI-Pro-4.5.1.app > Show Package Contents Edit /Applications/SmartBear/soapUI-Pro-4.5.1.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/soapui-pro.sh Uncomment "JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dsoapui.jxbrowser.disable=true" Start soapUI Hope this helps.
Add color to iTerm and terminal on OS X Lion
1. Add the following to your .bash_profile: # Enables color in the terminal bash shell exportCLICOLOR=1# Sets up the color scheme for list exportLSCOLORS=gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad# Sets up the prompt color (currently a green similar to linux terminal)export PS1=’\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;36m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ ‘# Enables color for iTermexport TERM=xterm-color# Sets up proper alias commands when calledalias ls=’ls -G’alias ll=’ls -hl’ 2.…