https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-05-13T14:19:32+00:00 https://old.andunix.net/ https://old.andunix.net/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2015-11-25T08:50:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/airport AirPort Command Line Interface AirPort On/Off Infos from OS X Daily AirPort On networksetup -setairportpower airport on AirPort Off networksetup -setairportpower airport off Select AirPort Network networksetup -setairportnetwork {Network} AirPort mac osx device wlan cli shell script sysadmin text/html 2016-04-05T06:49:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/clear_dns_cache Clear DNS Cache To clear the DNS cache on OS X, you first have to flush the cache and then send a signal the the 'mDNSResponder'. dscacheutil -flushcache sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder mac osx sysadmin dns cache cli text/html 2015-11-25T08:52:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/compact_sparseimage Comapct Sparse Image hdiutil compact your.sparseimage sysadmin cli apple mac osx text/html 2015-11-25T08:53:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/hostname Set a Mac's Hostname To set the permanent hostname, use the scutil utility (enter the desired hostname instead of the_hostname): sudo scutil --set HostName the_hostname Credits * <http://osxdaily.com/2010/09/06/change-your-mac-hostname-via-terminal/> mac osx cli sysadmin text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/index Mac mac index apple mac topic text/html 2013-03-10T21:06:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/mac_command_line_audio Command Line Audio Change Mac Audio Volume from Command Line To change the audio volume from remote of my Mac at home, I needed a command line tool which I can use via ssh. I've found it here: OS X Daily - Change the system volume from the command line. It's as easy as sudo osascript -e "set Volume 10" text/html 2015-11-25T08:59:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/macports MacPorts List Ports list requested ports: port echo requested | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | uniq list installed ports: port -qv installed Housekeeping When ports are updated, the old port is only deactivated, not uninstalled: ... autoconf @2.69_2 autoconf @2.69_3 autoconf @2.69_5 ... text/html 2015-11-25T08:53:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/make_your_mac_feel_home Make your Mac feel at Home A small snippet from one of my scripts which tests whether your Mac is in the given (home) WLAN. # # Path to 'airport' executeable, as of Mac OS X 10.5. AIRPORT="/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport" # # Set this to your Home WLAN SSID (name): HOMESSID="mycastle" # # Get SSID info from 'airport' and search for $HOMESSID SSID=$(${AIRPORT} --getinfo | grep ' SSID:') SSID=$(echo ${SSID} | grep "^SSID: ${HOMESSID}\$")… text/html 2015-11-25T09:43:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/rmdir rmdir for OSX The Finder on OSX creates .DS_Store files in the directories to store its settings. This makes removing directories from the command line quite complicated: $ rmdir test rmdir: test: Directory not empty $ rm test/.DS_Store $ /bin/rmdir test text/html 2014-04-28T08:58:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/sidebar andunix Infos info index Tags