I tend to find myself in the terminal.app on my Mac more often than not, SSHing into servers, checking whois, host, and any number of other things. My most frequent incantation is searching the command history so I don’t have to re-type a previous command, something like this: I’ll then copy and paste the command …
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Taking stock
I have a client with a lot lot lot lot of WordPress sites, and I’m helping them craft a strategy for dealing with WordPress throughout their business. One thing we wanted to do was to take stock of all the plugins they have installed on all their sites, work out how many are in common, …
Phew. My calendar is synced to my phone again
My phone used to sync with iCal several times a day, but when I upgraded to Leopard it wiped my cron tab file and all that goodness stopped. (Your crontab file is a way of scheduling tasks on your Mac using the Terminal application.) I’ve just googled around for the solution and found it again:Â Use …
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Exporting from MySQL to CSV
Everytime I need to do this I go into at least five minutes of Googling for a decent solution. The problem is that a lot of people don’t have access to the commandline, so the solutions all reference PHPMyAdmin which is, you know, OK, but I don’t use it or want to install it just …