DZone Snippets: osx code

Optimize Aperture database

willcodeforfoo () — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:43:20 GMT



sqlite3 Pictures/Aperture\ Library.aplibrary/Aperture.aplib/Library.apdb vacuum

Get Frontmost Window

willcodeforfoo () — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:20:44 GMT

tell application "System Events"

	set frontmostApplication to name of the first process whose frontmost is true

end tell

rsync backup of a Mac

willcodeforfoo () — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:37:42 GMT

sudo /usr/local/bin/rsync -aREx --delete --exclude='.Spotlight-*' --exclude '/private/var/vm/*' [IP-address of Mac mini]::PowerBookBackup

Fix Terminal spacing bug

willcodeforfoo () — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:45:18 GMT

defaults write com.apple.Terminal FontWidthSpacing 1.003

Building tcpflow on OS X

willcodeforfoo () — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:51:32 GMT



curl -O http://www.circlemud.org/pub/jelson/tcpflow/tcpflow-0.21.tar.gz

tar -zxvf tcpflow-0.21.tar.gz

cd tcpflow-0.21

cp /usr/share/libtool/config.* . 

./configure --prefix=/usr/local

sudo make install