tobym

function pwdx {
  lsof -a -p $1 -d cwd -n | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}'
}

mathiasbynens

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

    `basename "$0"` my-script.sh

newfront

Syntax: x264 [options] -o outfile infile [widthxheight]

Infile can be raw YUV 4:2:0 (in which case resolution is required),
  or YUV4MPEG 4:2:0 (*.y4m),
  or Avisynth if compiled with support (no).
  or libav* formats if compiled with lavf support (no) or ffms support (no).
Outfile type is selected by filename:
 .264 -> Raw bytestream
 .mkv -> Matroska
 .flv -> Flash Video

advorak

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" ]; then cat <<EOF
appify v3.0.0 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

    `basename "$0"` my-script.sh

MatthewEppelsheimer

#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2269385/a714e0e69ba99936f914ade0083709dcca6f8438/hack.sh | sh
#

MohamedAlaa

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

welldan97

pb-kill-line () {
  zle kill-line
  echo -n $CUTBUFFER | pbcopy
}

pb-kill-whole-line () {
  zle kill-whole-line
  echo -n $CUTBUFFER | pbcopy
}

vitorgalvao

-- AppleScript --

-- This example is meant as a simple starting point to show how to get the information in the simplest available way.
-- Keep in mind that when asking for a `return` after another, only the first one will be output.
-- This method is as good as its JXA counterpart.

-- Webkit variants include "Safari", "Webkit", "Orion".
-- Specific editions are valid, including "Safari Technology Preview".
-- "Safari" Example:
tell application "Safari" to return name of front document

guifromrio

This can reduce files to ~15% of their size (2.3M to 345K, in one case) with no obvious degradation of quality.

ghostscript -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Other options for PDFSETTINGS:

• /screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting.
• /ebook selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting.
• /printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting.
• /prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting.

sergiitk

OS X terminal tips an tricks

Shell tools

System

• sw_vers — Print Mac OS X operating system version information
• system_profiler — Reports system hardware and software configuration.
• system_profiler SPHardwareDataType — Hardware overview.
• hostinfo — Host information.
• nvram -p — Print all of the firmware variables.
• getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR — Retrieve standard configuration variables
• /usr/libexec/path_helper — Helper for constructing PATH environment variable