Apple’s default settings for BASH are less than lovely — just shades of gray.
Here’s how to add color to BASH for your visual enjoyment. Continue reading
Apple’s default settings for BASH are less than lovely — just shades of gray.
Here’s how to add color to BASH for your visual enjoyment. Continue reading
The method for clearing or flushing the local cache in Mac OS X has changed over the years. Clear your DNS cache on Yosemite, Mavericks, Lion, Mountain Lion, Snow Leopard and Leopard using the following Terminal commands:
I recently needed to change the permissions of all files inside a directory (only files but not folders), including subdirectories. From the command line in Mac OS X, I ran this command with success which changed all files recursively to 666 (rw-rw-rw-):
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 666 {} \;
Likewise, to change only directories to 777 (rwxrwxrwx), I used:
sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
Mac OS X 10.6 snow leopard uses the bash shell by default. If you install MySQL from the disk image (dmg) from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/, you can make it easy to access the mysql binary from the command line by adding it to your bash path.
Here’s how:
Open terminal, and type:
echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile
This adds the default location of the MySQL binary to your shell environment.
Then, you need to force the system to reload your .bash_profile file. Again, from terminal, enter:
. ~/.bash_profile
You can check your environment variables by typing in terminal:
env
Now, to access MySQL from the command line, you only need enter:
mysql