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Useful Mac Commands
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Useful Mac Commands

Common stuff

Find all files in current directory by extension

find . -type f -name "*.extension"

DS_Store

Delete all .DS_Store files

sudo find / -name "*.DS_Store" -type f -delete

Elastic scrolling

Disable:

defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0

Enable:

defaults delete -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding

EMFILE: Too many opened files error

This is because of your system's max opened file limit. For OSX the default is very low (256). Temporarily increase your limit with ulimit -n 10480, the number being the new max limit.

In some versions of OSX the above solution doesn't work. In that case try launchctl limit maxfiles 10480 10480 and restart your terminal.

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