Posts Tagged ‘terminal’

If you ever need to search a configuration file (or any other kind of file for that matter) for a parameter in order to replace the value, you can use `sed`.  For example, if there was an entry of Host=a.b.c.d But you want to replace it with: Host=a.b.c.e Instead of opening the file, finding the [...]

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 15:44 | 1 comment
Categories: *nix

I’ve run across the problem every so often where I need to delete a lot of folders at various directory depths on my OS X system. For example, I recently wanted to quickly clear out all my “.svn” folders in a working copy I had. Well, you can’t search hidden folders with Spotlight, so it [...]

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 at 21:28 | 1 comment
Categories: Mac OS X
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