Given the disaster with Lion 10.7.3 and how it writes passwords in plaintext to secure.log I have migrated to FileVault 2. Now I want to securely delete the secure.log file. With the finder I can delete a file and empty the trash securely. But is there a way to remove files securely from the command line?
View 1 RepliesI installed the FLAC Tools for Mac OSX a while back onto my machine, which added a program to the command line of "Terminal.app", and allowed me to convert media from and to the FLAC format using the command line, by simply running the command:
flac
in the Terminal.However, now I no longer need the ecoder installed on my computer; the question is, if it's a command line based program
Info:iMac Intel Core i3, Mac OS X (10.6.8), ATI Radeon HD 4670, 4GB DDR3 Memory
I connect to a computer through ssh, but I want to download a file through the commandline on that computer, found in an ftp website: [URL]
how to I do this?
A Java install occurred recently while I was using Safari. After the install completed, I noticed that the installation instructions specified all browsers be closed before installation took place. Can I "reinstall" this software from the command line with the browser closed?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
Is there a CLI command that will list which apps are using which external harddrives?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
How can I safley remove usb fron my mac pro
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011)
I'm new to Apple. I have an iMac (fairly recent) - beats me if it is an "Intel" or a "PPC" .I have my camera attached via a cable and I want to disconnect safely.
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I am new to Macbook and cannot remember if I need to safety remove external devices.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display
i have had couple of problems with my mail (all self inflicted) and i want to remove this mailbox and then reinstall it. Will this work or will i damage the google account as well?
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iPhone 3GS, Windows XP
I am trying to remove a status icon for an application I uninstalled. When I try to drag it, nothing happens, so removing it by the "command"key & drag method isn't effective. Is there another way I can get rid of it?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I imported data from flash drive. I cannot see an icon for the flash drive in order to safely remove it. Where is the icon? I have a 2013 Mac Pro.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
How do you remove a bookmark form the bookmark list?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 8 g memory, 500 g hard drive @ 7200
Trying to install a .pkg from the command line in single user mode. I'm using the command "installer -pkg Installer.pkg -target / The .pkg is on a mounted USB drive. / is also mounted. When I run the command, the screen scrolls to a new blank line and stays there but nothing happens. The light on my USB indicates no data transfer is happening. I get no output, even if I add -verbose to the command.
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I'm on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger PPC et Mac OS X 10.5 Leaopard Intel
im trying to display "Monday | November 15" and I have "date +%A" to display the weekday, "date +%B" to display the month, and "date +%d" to display the date number.. but somethin like "date +%A | date +%B date +%d" doesnt work.. I know I can create 3 shell boxes to do this, but I rather learn for the future so how do I do this all at once?
View 1 Replies View Relatedso i found pmset for managing power management from the commandline, and it's great. my question is, is there a similar command for controlling the screensaver? all i really want to do is turn it off (or on) remotely.
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View 11 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know how to do this? I've installed many Applications (compiling from source) with the command line, but how do I uninstall them?
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MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
A good friend who has used Macs professionally for years has asked me to send him a big stack of HTML documents and my instinct is to put them into a tarball, b2zip it, and send him that. I asked whether he could handle it and he told me to send each document separately, uncompressed. I use Linux, so I know you folks have an excellent OS that is BSD-based and can handle lots of bash commands I use. Accordingly I want to tell my friend how to do it all in one easy step from the CLI. He has no idea what I'm talking about, does not know how to get to the CLI, and did not even know Macs have them until I mentioned it to him.
So could you kindly provide my friend with a no-assumptions, comprehensive, clear list of beginner's instructions that will tell him exactly what to do to? He needs to:
1. Get into the CLI
2. Locate the tarball he downloaded from Gmail
3. Unzip it and open it
4. Get out of the CLI and back into the GUI.
I would deal with the tarball this way: $ tar xjvf ./texts.tar.bz2. Could he use that command? I don't have any idea how to leave the graphic world on a Mac. My view is that fulfilling his request will be difficult and a lot of work for him as well if I don't use a tarball, and he needs to learn something about the OS he's using. I'll be interested to see how Mac users do it, as well. Yes, I expect the job can be done in the GUI on a Mac, but as I say, I would like to expand his universe (and mine) just a bit. Dragging him out of the GUI won't hurt him, and the learning experience could give him a bit more respect for the power and flexibility of the OS he uses daily.
I've just managed to run isightcapture to capture webcam pictures via command line and now I'd like to capture the video/audio stream.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedHowever I cannot figure out how to shutdown and restart MySQL from the command line and pass these options to mysqld.Â
Snow Leopard and MySQL 5.1.56 MySQL Community Server.
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MacBook & MacAir & iMac, MacAir 10.5.x -- iMac 10.6.x
I need to create 1000 tags on my OS-X Yosemite, is there a way to do this from command line?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
When I tried to type the letter 'o' in Terminal, the application just wouldn't let me and keeps flashing every time I press the 'o' key. I searched the internet but can't find the solution for this issue. Disabling me from typing this certain alphabet has caused me a lot of inconvenience..
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MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
