OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Create Aliases For Terminal
Jun 19, 2012
I have set up an alias I frequently use when working on the command line and I'd like to change it now but I can't find the file where I set it up. I googled a bit and found some people saying it must be in either .bash_profile or ~/.bashrc but I don't have either of those files in my home directory. So basically how do I go about finding out where I have initially set up this alias so that I can modify it?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Mar 18, 2012
How can I add/create user via terminal?
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iPod shuffle
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Apr 15, 2012
I don't know much about Terminal, but I need to compress a folder from one external hard drive directly to my Time Capsule and split archives to 4GB each. What is the command to do that?
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Aug 27, 2014
I am looking for a command to create a .zip file with todays date of /Library/Caches/
What is the command for creating a .zip file with date in Terminal?
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May 14, 2010
I need to make Symbol Links for some files and was looking for a way to make them. I don't want to use Terminal as I am just getting used to using a MAC. Is there a free program out there that will do this?
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Jun 23, 2010
I can't find a third party app to create a MD5 checksum of folders and subfolders. The closest I got was checksum+, but the programs doesn't handle large folders; it freezes.
So I would like to go into Terminal and do it manually. Can someone share the command line to create:
�a MD5 checksum of a folder and its subfolders and output it to a txt file.
�a way then to use that outputted text file for file verification. My initial thinking is that I would have to create another MD5 checksum of the copied folder and then use a difference type command to compare the text files?
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Oct 7, 2010
I'm just curious about how to create an Admin from the startup terminal. I tried this: dscl . -create /Users/luser. Didn't work obviously. Any ideas? I'm running 10.6.4 but am going to update when I have the time...
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Jun 8, 2008
I would like to create Mac User Accounts via terminal, with the basic settings for a user who needs to log in on a mail server.
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Mar 3, 2012
I'm looking at OS X Server as a possible email server upgrade from an OLD Linux box. On our current server we have aliases setup to archive all incoming and outgoing email to another account. That one account then checks email via POP and then it is archived on another client computer for record keeping and CYA. It looks like this:Â
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7)
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Dec 8, 2009
I'd like to create the look that something is happening in Terminal without actually doing anything. Sort of like how the Apple ]['s ROM checksum was used for the first-person view in The Terminator.
I'd prefer something that was just providing output, like a checksum, NOT moving or editing files or directories.
Terminator ][? o.o
The 12 Gauge auto-loader, the .45 long slide with laser sighting, phase plasma rifle in a 40 watt range, the Uzi 9mm... two oxen died crossing the river
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May 21, 2012
While messing around with iPhoto and Time Machine, I ended up in the following situation. When trying to open Pictures on the sidebar of Finder, a Terminal shell pops up on the screen. Similarly, if I try to open Pictures on a Time Machine screen, I get the message "Open with Terminal" Now, I don't know how to use Terminal. How can I come back to the anterior situation where I could open Picture jut by a click?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Oct 23, 2009
I have lost some important bookmarks from my previous Firefox version. I see some Firefox alias versions on my computer but when I try to open them, the computer says I need to fix them...
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Oct 20, 2009
Anybody see this before? I opened up Terminal.app and the window is completely blank. There is nothing in it whatsoever. Looks as if bash never started. The title bar simply says "Terminal — login — 80x24". I can type whatever I want in the Terminal window like it's a text document and nothing happens. If I restart the computer, this seems to fix the problem, but it seems to only be a temporary fix as the issue happens again soon after.
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Oct 23, 2009
I like to backup the "Documents" folder as I have a lot of crucial information in there. Dropbox is perfect if I'm using my Mac, as I just throw a Document folder alias in there. Perfect!
But on my iPhone, on the Dropbox website, or on a PC, it simply doesn't work. It thinks the alias folder is an unopenable file!
How do I get it to open on other systems? I know I could just copy it to there and update it once in awhile, but the automatic updating with aliases is perfect.
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Oct 27, 2009
It started with a USB drive attached to my Airport BaseStation. It was mounted on the desktop but whenever I clicked on it I got the message:'The alias "Maxtor Basic" can't be opened because the original item can't be found.'
I have three options underneath:
1.to delete the alias - which gives me a message: 'The item "Maxtor Basic' can't be moved to the Trash because it can't be deleted.';
2.to fix the alias (this option doesn't work because if I get the network up on a Finder window all the drives show as available except the one in question, which is greyed out; and
3. to press 'OK' which basically does nothing.
I can eject the icon on the desktop but when I try and connect again I just get another icon that thinks it's an alias (there's no little arrow at the bottom of it, though). I've tried restarting the computer, disconnecting the drives and switching them off, disconnecting all users from the Airport disks page and none of these works. Is it possible the disk itself thinks it's an alias?
Following on from that I've found that some of the files in my other remote disks (attached with FireWire and USB directly to the computer) are doing the same thing. Have I caught a bug? Is this a Snow Leopard issue? Please don't tell me to format any hard drives - I've had to start again so many times recently I'm beginning to consider giving my computer away and living without it!
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Aug 26, 2004
As the title says, is it possible to use the .mac aliases with the mail app? Or can I just do that via webmail. If so, it would destroy the purpose of having them in the first place...
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Jul 1, 2012
Had 5 aliases when I switched ti iCloud. Now my "accounts" indicate I have only three and even those three DON'T show on my accounts page.Since I moved my non-compatible MacBookPro to iCloud a couple weeks ago and received a validation eMail that my stuff would still work, what do I do now?If you had five MobileMe email address aliases when you moved your account to iCloud, you retain the five aliases. However, once you delete one of your five aliases, you can’t create a new one to replace it.I have various financial locations using each of these aliases and need to have them available today.
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MacBook Pro (17-inch), Mac OS X (10.5.8), 1024MB memory & 2meg on Pro
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Jan 26, 2010
I'm trying to do something in terminal, and it asks for my password. I press a letter on my keyboard, and nothing appears. I am in the right window and everything, terminal just doesn't react to my typing. However, when I click enter, it says 'Sorry,try again'. So it does react to the enter key.
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Jun 29, 2012
I cannot find my former .mac email aliases - one of which I use for business and is on all my business stationery. I don't want to change it if I don't have to. I don't see it in the list - only the new @me address. It was my understanding that all my aliases would remain intact.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jan 29, 2008
I'm running Symantec Backup Agent on our mac osx server. I start the agent in the terminal (./agent.be). It returns a notification that it started the service, however, it doesn't return to the prompt. Closing the terminal gives a warning that the process will be closed if the terminal is closed. Closing it does kill the process. Ctrl+c to return to the prompt also kills the process. So it's as if once the process is started in the terminal, nothing can be altered.
I am not much of a mac guy so please forgive me if this is a stupid question.
Anyone have any advice on how to handle this so the process is ALWAYS running?
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Dec 21, 2010
Sometimes I'd like to create an aliases/shortcuts from an application which resides within a folder and place that alias inside the root of the /Applications/ folder instead. However, for some reason I can't do this on my wife's Mac running Leopard 10.5.8.
So instead of getting a "green arrow" type icon whenever I click the app's icon while holding down ALT and CMD I now get a white circle with a line over it, apparently indicating that this is something I can't do. I believe I checked my drive's permissions (using "Disk utility") but found no errors (or had the errors fixed), so what could be the problem?
By the way, I've also noticed that I'm asked to verify (with the user-login password) if I want to delete (put an application in the trash) something from inside the Applications folder. Is this normal? I'm not used to this from MacOSX Tiger 10.4.
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Apr 28, 2012
The shortcuts/aliases on the Dock on my MacBook Air become "corrupted," and overwritten with a black question mark. They must the be removed, and replaced. How can I avoid this?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 8, 2012
We have six mac computers in our office and we keep our files on a network drive that is accessed wirelessly. One of our folders has 40 or so client project folders inside it. I've discovered that on my iMac, about ten of these folders have lost their original status when I booted up this morning (they were all originals yesterday) and are now aliases demanding to be fixed or deleted. No one has copied them, moved them, and some haven't even been opened since April. I've done some research online and it seems this problem often gets blamed on moving a file or copying a file and the file/folder itself is written off as dead. But the extremely crazy thing is on the other 5 computers in this office, they can access the files as originals (which they are). I had one of my coworkers make a duplicate of one of my aliased folders, which she did, and then I was able to open it and use the contents. But about an hour later, it was suddenly an alias again and I no longer had access. We've had this problem on more than one computer in the office, but never the same folder at the same time. It can always be accessed from somewhere, so what causes one computer to suddenly view an original folder as an alias, while another computer can view that same folder as an orignal.
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iMac
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Jun 19, 2014
MacBook Pro Retina
OS X 10.9.3
Filevault enabledÂ
I have multiple accounts set up on this system. When I do a file search (file name or contents) from my professional account, names of files from my personal account are found. Clicking on these shows no directory and double-clicking produce the message:Â
"The alias 'my_personal_file' can't be opened because the original item can't be found."Â The above message includes the options to "Delete Alias" and "Fix Alias..." Â Delete Alias apparently does nothing. Fix Alias allows me to specify another file, but that produces:Â
"The operation can't be completed. An unexpected error occured (error code -43). Also, I cannot put them in the trash. A sudo command-line search cannot find these files/aliases anywhere on the computer accessible from my professional account.Â
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Mar 30, 2012
I have a need to place screenshots into a specific folder. I have entered the new location for the screenshots into terminal, but i am not sure how to log out of "Terminal".
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 3, 2012
how to use the command prompt in Lion and haven't been able to find anything. i'd like to learn the different commands first instead of the GUI.
by the way, are there any guides on what to do in the first stage of setting up OS X on a mac mini?
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Aug 19, 2010
I'm on a standard user account and I would really like to install icalbuddy which is a terminal app. When I install apps normally I simply have to provide a admin name and pw, but this doesn't work when it is a terminal app because it requires that the 'su' command be run.
So I thought that I could run terminal as admin through 'su - admin' and then install. But of course the admin account doesn't have access to the user folder where the installer is located. I just can't win.
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Jun 2, 2010
After start-up of my Mac, opening a new finder window results in collapsing all other open finder windows. This effect is not stable, because it happens only from time to time. Also my aliases to folders or docs in the side of my finder windows, made to my external La Cie Biggest Quadra RAID harddisk (connected by eSATA PCI card) vanish after some time.
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Aug 22, 2014
I've always used Mail in Mac OS X but one day I decided I would try Outlook 2011 so I could manage rules and filters without having to go to OWA. I was not very happy with Outlook 2011 so I removed it and decided to go back to Mail for Mac OS X. Since trying Outlook 2011, I'm having problems setting up the Exchange account in Mail.My company uses first.last company.com and flast company.com for our email address/alias.When I setup the account, auto discovery finds everything just fine and logs me in and downloads all the mail, rules, filters, etc. stored on the server. The problem is in Internet Accounts in System Preferences, I now see two Exchange accounts. One for first.last and another for flast. since mail seemed to be working fine, but one day I noticed something when I did a reply all to a mail message. It included myself in the reply to fields. I thought maybe it was a setting in Mail that I overlooked when setting up the Exchange account. As it turns out though, the problem is that the first.last account is now somehow the default mail account on Exchange and the flast is what I'm replying with.Checking System Preferences, I noticed that the first.last Exchange account doesn't have checks in the selection boxes for Mail, Contacts or Notes, but it does for Calendars and Reminders. However the flast is exactly the opposite; it has checks in the selection boxes for Mail, Contacts and Notes, but not Calendars or Reminders.
When I try to enable Mail, Contacts or Notes in the first.last Exchange account I get an error dialog stating "There was a problem setting up the account. An unknown error occurred."I experience this on multiple computers, including an iMac 27", iMac 24" and MacBook Pro 17".I'm using Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 and iCloud for my home accounts and connecting to an Exchange 2010 work account.
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iMac (24-inch Early 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Core 2 Duo 3.06Ghz
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Mar 12, 2012
I looked up an old thread on clearing recently viewed quicktime player videos.The advice recommended was to enter the following three commands into terminal.After entering the three commands the quicktime recent files were cleared. Uninformatively then finder would freeze up and give me errors.how to undue these commands?
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX NSRecentDocumentsLimit 0
defaults delete com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX.LSSharedFileList RecentDocuments
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX.LSSharedFileList RecentDocuments -dict-add MaxAmount 0
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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