Questions tagged [macos]
macOS (formerly known as OS X or Mac OS X) is the desktop operating system from Apple, found on Macintosh computers.
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macOS: resetting balance to center (0.5) using Swift
Due to some bug somewhere, my speaker balance kept moving off-center and it was getting annoying. So I cobbled together the code below (based on this question) which—to my surprise—does compile and ...
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Wi-fi scheduler written in C
I'm new to C and programming in general (some minimal prior exposure to JS and python). This is also my first time working with shell commands, scripts, and cron. This program works on my macOS and ...
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Break music player into usable components in SwiftUI
I created a music player using swiftUI.I need to ask a question when I break up my player into usable components. How should I take this approach with the music player? because the music player is one ...
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Trying (and failing) to implement the best conventions on OOP Swift
I'm making a MacOS app that will do some analysis on the user's calendar data. For now it only supports Apple's native calendar (EventKit), but I will later add ...
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realpath substitute with --relative-to and --relative-base support
In a bash 3 script for OSX machines, I needed the functional equivalent of the realpath command, complete with support for the ...
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bash script to delete files resurrected by Adobe InDesign bug
After a March update, Adobe Indesign will resurrect removed directories it was responsible for creating in the first place, but not any files except for one file called "AdobeFnt.lst". So where once ...
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Moving files from a directory to multiple with names same as file
I have a folder containing thousands of files and directories. I
would like to move all the files that are not contained in a sub
directory into a directory and name it the file name, while ...
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Bash script to scp specific, most-recent files from remote server
I'm writing a helper script that I wish to be able to share with my co-workers. We all work using macOS Mojave, but all have their own shell configurations. For example, I actually use ZSH and bash 5....
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Auto re-connecting to a VPN on OS X and pointing Squid accordingly
We need to tunnel certain applications over a VPN at work. Ideally we would use a dedicated firewall/network appliance for this but the only permanent infrastructure we have are Mac Pro's running ...
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Batch rename files recursively, and number the directory index
When dealing with iOS app bundle, It is not convenient to get the file by its path, but loading it by its name.
Need to batch rename images recursively, with Mac Bash. And to make the name unique, ...
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Batch rename files with Mac Bash,while the dir index should be recorded
I need to batch rename images with Mac Bash,while the directory index should be recorded.
To rename files ,turn
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SSH autokiller for connections from other systems
I was messing around with ssh and decided to write a python program that scans for any connections that aren't from the system, then terminates them. It works well ...
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Java program that relaunches itself in OS's terminal application
I wrote a Java program that when its executable .jar is opened manually, it re-opens itself inside the operating system's shell console. The purpose of this is to have a C#-style console application ...
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Drawing graphics and text using macOS Core Graphics
I have a small python project, which draws graphics and text onto a graphics context using MacOS's Core Graphics APIs. The idea is to make it easy for the user to write a few short lines, in order to ...
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Mac Bash: how to combine the open and str subtract to one line code? [closed]
new to bash , I use the following code to open the super folder with a file path.
function openUp(){
cd $(echo $1 | sed 's@\(.*\)/.*@\1@' );
open ..
}
like ...
