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Thanks! This works perfectly. .

Thanks for your continuing help with this. The "cp -rp" and the mass change utility I use both preserve ownership and permissions. I double-checked. However, I had to be a bit more selective with the mass change, so as not to change the names of the references to the help files or to the...

Thanks. So do you think it's possible for me to define copies (or near-copies) of the Terminal program that look like different applications? I tried the following approaches, but they didn't work: 1. I went into /Applications/Utilities and did this: ln -s Terminal.app Terminal-Test.app. I...

I have a MacBook Pro running 10.5, and I have a Terminal instance set up that invokes the following command: /usr/bin/emacs -nw I'd like to be able to pass a file name to this instance when I start it up, so that it will open a window with an emacs session that is editing that particular file...

I have several kinds of Terminal windows that I regularly use (user shell, root shell, remote shell, etc.), and I want to force them to appear in certain Spaces desktops. I can force all Terminal windows to appear in a specific Spaces desktop, but I'd like to have some Terminal windows always...

PS: I'm using Leopard. I'm guessing that this error is related to the fact that it already comes with a version of Xcode (3.0, I believe). I uninstalled that version of Xcode and also the iPhone version, both via sudo <Xcode>/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all. I then rebooted before...

I have just now installed the iPhone SDK, and because I'm a novice, I'm going through Apple's video tutorial. In this tutorial, the instructor brings up Xcode and immediately starts working on a project template called Cocoa Touch. However, when I start up Xcode, that template does not...

Thanks! This works for me.

I have created an encrypted disk image that I want to open the command line, using the open program. I issue the open Image.dmg command, at which time a dialog box pops up on the screen, prompting me for the encryption password. However, what I'd like to do is issue the password without a...

Thanks. Works great! .

Is there any way to completely disable the "application XXX quit unexpectedly" window that comes up when applications crash? I'd just like all crashed apps to simply die and disappear without my having to interact with any dialog. Thanks in advance. .

Well, thanks, but I want to touch them. I've done Unix sysadmin work for almost 20 years, and I don't need to be protected from myself ... especially on my own laptop that no one shares with me. Based on the fact that nixgeek used the word "hidden" in his message to me, I searched via Google...

Thank you very much. Actually, I had managed to figure out how to get to these directories via Go to Folder, but I'm wondering if there is a way to un-hide them so that they start showing up in the Finder. No one besides me is using my MacBook, and I already know not to delete /etc, /usr, and...

I'm running Leopard on a MacBook Pro. I'm relatively new to the Mac, but I came from the Unix world, and I'm very much at home in the Terminal. Therefore, I often am creating directories by hand there, using mkdir. This works fine, but then, many of these directories don't show up in the...

Thanks! .

The "Reset your Pram" link points to a non-existent page. Could someone suggest the correct target for this link? Thanks, .

Thank you very much. Yes, I can do that. Or for that matter, I can write a shell script to pipe ifconfig through the appropriate awk program, as well ... or I could to the whole thing within a perl or python or ruby program ... or I could write something in C ... or ... I've just been trying...

Thanks. As I mentioned above, I know how to write one or more shell scripts to perform this task, and that's exactly what this ipinfo thing is doing. I was just wondering if there's a single native macosx command-line utility which will return the current IP address without requiring grepping...

Thank you for your reply. This indeed gives the IP, but I have to know whether I'm using the wired or wireless connection ahead of time, so I can then choose whether to put en0 or en1 on the command line. Sometimes I'm on the wired connection and sometimes the wireless, and I'd like to figure...

I'm running Leopard on a MacBook Pro. Is there a short command that I can run from within the Terminal that will return the current IP address? I know that I can run ifconfig and then pipe the results through an appropriate grep, but I'm wondering if there's also a more direct command that I...