December 2009 Archives

Make your Mac speak

By Tom Fitzgerald on December 29, 2009 2:59 PM | No Comments
Thought I'd share this quick little utility. It's something I'm sure has a real purpose but is a lot of fun to play with. This is for all your Mac users. Start a terminal and type:

say 'Tom is awesome' 

Amazing huh? That should keep you busy for a while. 

Find files on Linux

By Tom Fitzgerald on December 29, 2009 2:33 PM | No Comments
Easy ways to find files on Linux / Mac terminal

I needed to find a PDF but I forgot the name. I opened a terminal and I'm in my home directory. 

find .  -name '*.pdf' -print

Will return a list of PDF's in my home directory. Easy!

Looking for a installed program location?

whereis httpd

Will return Apache's http server
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