I’m working on a personal project for the iPhone. Specifically, I’d like to make an ajaxed index of all my music organized by artist. It’s a spare time project, and I don’t have much of that right now, but it’s coming along well. I started out by making an HTML index of a directory of [...]
Category Archives: Scripting
Full Filenames in the Finder
Sunday, December 16, 2007
By running the two commands below, in a terminal, it’s possible to get OS X’s Finder to display the current full path as the window’s title. $ defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES $ killall Finder It’s not possible to edit or “grab” the path. Power users might like the Finder’s “Path Bar” more. You [...]
Linking Shell Scripts to Automator Actions
Friday, April 13, 2007
You might be wondering why I’d even want to link a shell script to an Automator action. Good question, I have no idea. It’s there, I have shell scripts and a Mac, seems like an obvious decision. From the tutorial The Run Shell Script action in this simple example runs the find command in the [...]
Recursively Copy Files but not Directories with Find
Friday, April 6, 2007
Every once in a while I’m floored by someone’s amazing foresight. In this case who ever came up with find’s -exec and -execdir actions. From the man page: -exec command ; Execute command; true if 0 status is returned. All following arguments to find are taken to be arguments to the command until an argument [...]
Bashpodder
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Bashpodder is a script that was designed to be a podcatcher that is both simple and easy to use. Because it succeeds at both of these goals it deserves even more praise than it’s already received. It’s most notable feature is that it requires no GUI to use. This makes it useful for automatically downloading [...]