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Command line pimpin' for Mac OS X

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Pimp my PC

Thursday May 13, 2010

Lucas rolls up his sleeves and delves into the Terminal to show you a few of his fave command line hacks for Mac OS X. These sweet Stack hacks make this handy OS X feature even more so. As a bonus, Lucas unveils a bonus

OS X Terminal Easter egg

in the form of

Star Wars: A New Hope in ASCII

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Show Notes

To open the Terminal

- Open up Spotlight and search for Terminal.

Terminal commands

- Input the following commands into a Terminal session.

To have icons in a grid-view stack highlight on mouse-over:

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean YES

killall Dock

To alter the List view in Stacks

defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool YES

killall Dock

See Star Wars: A New Hope in ASCII

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

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