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    Terminal Terminology Help, Please

    maybe this: #!/bin/sh for x in `ls iTunes\ Music/ | sed 's/ /_/g'` do z=`echo $x | sed 's/_/\\\ /g'` for y in `ls $z | sed 's/ /_/g'` do echo "`echo $x | sed 's/_/ /g'` - `echo $y | sed 's/_/ /g'`" done done i hope you don t have any files or folders with underscores...
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    Terminal Terminology Help, Please

    OK OK, we re getting closer though... #!/bin/sh for x in `ls iTunes\ Music/ | sed 's/ /\\\ /g'` do for y in `ls $x | sed 's/ /\\\ /g'` do echo "$x - $y" done done i m not sure whether this will work. here i replace the spaces with escaped spaces instead. i think it...
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    Terminal Terminology Help, Please

    OK, try this: #!/bin/sh for x in `ls iTunes\ Music/ | sed 's/ /_/g'` do for y in `ls $x | sed 's/ /_/g'` do echo "$x - $y" done done if you save that to a file as before, and make it executable, i think it should work as before, except it will replace the spaces with...
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    Stupid Mozilla Question

    and what is GPRS?
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    Connect to Server Question

    i have noticed that peculiarity myself. nice to know how to fix it. thanks
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    Terminal Terminology Help, Please

    oh yeah. shell scripts have a real problem with files with spaces in their names. let me think about this.
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    Terminal Terminology Help, Please

    well the thing i posted above will do something like that. except that it doesn t check for 'Unkown Artist' or anything like that. you would just have to redirect it. try something like this: 1. save that text to a file, using cat, or nano or pico or emacs or whatever. you can even use...
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    routing to default gateway using DHCP

    DHCP is pretty cross platform, so it seems to me very strange that your PCs get routers, but your mac doesnt. did you say it gets an IP, netmask, DNS servers, but not a router? or it gets no configuration at all with DHCP.
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    Terminal Terminology Help, Please

    i m not sure i understand what you need to do.... how about something like this: for x in `ls iTunes\ Music/` do for y in `ls $x` do echo "$x - $y" done done this is in bash, not tcsh. i think it should work in sh too. don t program in tcsh. x...
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    mail.crap

    for the first problem, try rebuild mailbox. for the second, i don t know what. it sounds pretty fubared.
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    where is HP?

    RacerX used to be a regular around this message board. he was a long time professional with the ancestors of OSX, rhapsody and NeXTSTEP. he knew lots of stuff about the history of OSX, and his theory was that adobe was withholding Photoshop for OSX because apple chose to use PDF to display the...
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    Mac OS X verbose mode?

    i think is command-V. of course that s one time only.
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    OS X and a networkless Mac

    there is also a hostname associated with 127.0.0.1 that you can use: localhost.
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    where is HP?

    well, i hate to seem impatient..... but the webpage right now claims july '02 for the 6300 scanner, and according to my watch, july '02 is gone....
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    MacOS X as a NIS (YP) client with NFS mounted /home file system

    setting the machine to use NetInfo for logins requires you to change the lookup order of NetInfo. you can either do this by adding some files to /etc or by adding some directories to the NetInfo directory structure. read the lookupd man pages for more details. ask, if you need more specific...
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    How do I set up an ftp server?

    Howto enable ftp access: 1. open system preferences 2. click on "Allow FTP Access" 3. make a note of the number at the bottom, under computer name, next to where it reads: "IP Address" Howto access FTP server from OSX: 1. open Terminal.app 2. type the following on the...
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    Mac OS X verbose mode?

    sudo nvram boot-args=""
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    Broadband mixing question

    just install a router. it is the most efficient way to make use of multiple connections. you can definitely increase bandwidth that way. of course, that takes a lot of know-how. but many networks have multiple connections. it s great for performance, and for reliability and redundancy
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    Networking with Airport

    it is possible that your friends SMC router can pass out hostnames as it acts as a DHCP server. the DHCP protocol allows this. however i have never seen a home broadband router do this, only a cisco where i used to work. i have familiarity with some netgear, asante, linksys, and apple home...
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    hostname problem

    i just noticed that there is a description of a slightly different way to accomplish this in the HOWTO forum, using niload instead of niutil. http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10694 seems he doesn t need to change lookup order either
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