terminal Archives - Garbage In Garbage Out https://gigoblog.com/tag/terminal/ Tech tips & other words Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:28:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Clear Mac OS DNS cache via command line https://gigoblog.com/2025/10/28/clear-dns-cache-in-mac-os-via-command-line-all-versions/ https://gigoblog.com/2025/10/28/clear-dns-cache-in-mac-os-via-command-line-all-versions/#respond Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:52:59 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/?p=631 The method for clearing or flushing the local cache in Mac OS has changed over the years. Here are all the Mac OS versions on one page that details how to clear Mac OS DNS cache via command line. TLDR; Add this alias to your .zshrc file: alias flushdns="sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder;sudo killall mDNSResponderHelper;sudo dscacheutil […]

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]]> https://gigoblog.com/2025/10/28/clear-dns-cache-in-mac-os-via-command-line-all-versions/feed/ 0 Colorize your Terminal shell on Mac OS https://gigoblog.com/2019/10/09/colorize-your-terminal-shell-on-mac-os/ https://gigoblog.com/2019/10/09/colorize-your-terminal-shell-on-mac-os/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:09:35 +0000 http://gigoblog.com/?p=692 You need to add color into Mac OS terminal. 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. Here’s what we’re going to create: From Terminal, edit your .bash_profile: vi ~/.bash_profile Add to it: export PS1="\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\]\h:\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ " export CLICOLOR=1 […]

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]]> https://gigoblog.com/2019/10/09/colorize-your-terminal-shell-on-mac-os/feed/ 0 Change permissions on all files and/or all directories https://gigoblog.com/2011/09/14/change-permissions-on-all-files-o-directories/ https://gigoblog.com/2011/09/14/change-permissions-on-all-files-o-directories/#respond Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:12:29 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/?p=306 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 […]

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]]> https://gigoblog.com/2011/09/14/change-permissions-on-all-files-o-directories/feed/ 0 Add MySQL to terminal shell in Mac OS X https://gigoblog.com/2011/03/13/add-mysql-to-terminal-shell-in-mac-os-x/ https://gigoblog.com/2011/03/13/add-mysql-to-terminal-shell-in-mac-os-x/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:15:27 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/?p=281 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 […]

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