must install tools (for development)

  • homebrew
  • brew install wget (The installation script of other tools may use wget to download file from github.com)
  • brew install md5sha1sum ( could use md5sum command line tools )
  • https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/power-gadget.html
  • https://github.com/Snipaste/feedback
  • disk
    • Disk Inventory X - https://www.derlien.com/
    • GrandPerspective - https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

Setup

Init

How to tab between buttons on an Mac OS X dialog box

How to exclude node_modules dir from “All My Files”

How do I hide files from “All My Files” in Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion)

https://superuser.com/questions/322142/how-do-i-hide-files-from-all-my-files-in-mac-os-x-v10-7-lion

can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.

Hold down the Control key and click the application icon. From the contextual menu choose Open.

http://www.iclarified.com/28180/how-to-open-applications-from-unidentified-developers-in-mac-os-x-mountain-lion

Common Software

Bash git completion

macOS shiped with git by default

$ git --version
git version 2.13.5 (Apple Git-94)

brew install git bash-completion

open a new terminal window, you will get the new git

$ git --version
git version 2.15.0

Add contents below to ~/.bash_profile

# bash completion
if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion ]; then
    . $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
fi

ref:

XCode

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?mt=12

Remote Desktop Client for Windows

command line tools

md5

echo -n "this will be encrypted" | md5
md5 -qs 'this will be encrypted'

https://stackoverflow.com/a/8996843/4685522

disable save-as dialog animation

for 10.12 (macOS Sierra )

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .001

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/142734 https://www.defaults-write.com/10-terminal-commands-to-speed-up-macos-sierra-on-your-mac/

Install Chromium (not chrome!) on Mac OS X

method 1

use dmg file directly

http://www.freesmug.org/chromium

method 2

$ brew tap domt4/chromium
$ brew cask install mac-chromium
$ brew tap buo/cask-upgrade

brew-cask-upgrade is a command-line tool for upgrading every outdated app installed by Homebrew Cask.

how to update mac-chromium

➜  ~ brew cu mac-chromium
==> Options
Include auto-update (-a): false
Include latest (-f): false
==> Updating Homebrew
Already up-to-date.
==> Finding outdated apps
     Cask          Current  Latest   A/U    Result
1/1  mac-chromium  c514074  c514074       [   OK   ]

Refs: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/215426

uninstall

➜  ~ brew cask uninstall mac-chromium
==> Uninstalling Cask mac-chromium
==> Removing App '/Applications/Chromium.app'.
==> Unlinking Binary '/usr/local/bin/chromium'.

prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep

python

python

disk (file system) case sensitive

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/71360

$ diskutil info /
...
   Content (IOContent):      Apple_HFS
   File System Personality:  Journaled HFS+
   Type (Bundle):            hfs
   Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
   Journal:                  Journal size 40960 KB at offset 0x1a388000
   Owners:                   Enabled
...

➜  tmp pwd
/Users/devin.chenyang/tmp
➜  tmp touch A
➜  tmp ll
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 devin.chenyang  devin.chenyang     0B Nov 29 12:39 A
➜  tmp touch a
➜  tmp ll
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 devin.chenyang  devin.chenyang     0B Nov 29 12:39 A

➜  ~ cd /tmp
➜  /tmp touch a
➜  /tmp touch A
➜  /tmp ll a A
-rw-r--r--  1 devin.chenyang  wheel     0B Nov 29 12:30 A
-rw-r--r--  1 devin.chenyang  wheel     0B Nov 29 12:30 a

solution is https://stackoverflow.com/a/20907647/4685522

git mv a A

force spotlight to re-index

I just installed a new version brackets. When I search it in spotlight, it disappeared

sudo mdutil -a -i off
sudo mdutil -a -i on

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/142523

and a another way:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/237498

you could also use https://www.alfredapp.com/ to replace spotlight

Show macOS version

ip-10-6-2-171:~ devin.chenyang$ sw_vers
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.12.6
BuildVersion:	16G1036

鼠标指针自动往(224,1176)跳转

经常是连续跳两次，间隔 1 ～ 2s，也就是第一次跳过来，然后手动挪开，然后又跳过来了，坐标始终是(224,1176)。有的时候是跳转一次。

屏幕分辨率是 2560x1440, 27 寸 DELL U2715H

内置显示器分辨率是 2880x1800

Update 2018-03-14: 现在 macOS 已经更新到了 10.12.6，没有再次出现这个问题。

Update 2018-03-27: 现在是 10.12.6 (16G1212) 但是最近又开始出现这个问题了。跳转到(840,966)/(2560x1440)

2018-03-28
4:43
6:20

2018-03-29
12:39 - 1 jump
4:21 - 1 jump
4:47 - 1 jump
5:57 - 1 jump
6:37 - 1 jump

2018-03-30
12:49 - 1 jump
1:06 - 1 jump
4:35 - 1 jump
4:57 - 1 jump

2018-04-04
After a mac update and a reboot, there seems no jumping now. current version is: 10.12.6 (16G1314)

Shortcut

Put macOS (10.12) to sleep Ctrl+Shift+Fn+F12

locate command

What’s the equivalent of Linux’s updatedb command for the Mac?

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

split command

split -b 2m "foo.tsv" "bar-"

2m mean 2MB.

will get two new files

bar-aa
bar-ab

Python 2.7 already deprecated in macOS Catalina (Version 10.15)

Python 2.7 will be removed in macOS (Version 10.16)

[macOS Catalina 10.15 Release Notes

  • Scripting Language Runtimes - Deprecations](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes/macos_catalina_10_15_release_notes#3318257)

Fixing Tags Encoding of map3 files

Tag Editor - https://amvidia.com/guides/music-organising/fixing-tags-encoding

But the free version of “Tag Editor” cannot support bulk fixing multiple mp3 files.

Another tool I tried is MusicBrainz Picard (https://picard.musicbrainz.org/), but it doesn’t support fixing encoding. But we could use it to bulk rename mp3 tags.

See also

References