Questions tagged [macos]
macOS (formerly known as OS X or Mac OS X) is the desktop operating system from Apple, found on Macintosh computers.
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Play Snake Game on Mac OS Terminal using C with ncurses Library
Made a simple snake game in C.
I am just having some fun with program and using this as a spring board of knowledge in hopes to get some confidence to maybe try different kinds of projects. I am ...
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Javascript CLI to boot iOS simulators, install project, extract data, and merge into JSON
I'm a DIY "dev" - so I really create things that I need or think they'll end up helping others.
I wrote this Swift Package so the iOS community could get device bezel radius' to help with UI ...
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Efficiency of wgpu-based 2D Batch Renderer
I've been working on a WebGPU-backed Rust renderer that batches together 2D colored sprites. I hadn't gotten onto the "sprite" portion of it yet, but I'm already finding some performance ...
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macOS: resetting balance to center (0.5) using Swift
Due to some bug somewhere, my speaker balance kept moving off-center and it was getting annoying. So I cobbled together the code below (based on this question) which—to my surprise—does compile and ...
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Wi-fi scheduler written in C
I'm new to C and programming in general (some minimal prior exposure to JS and python). This is also my first time working with shell commands, scripts, and cron. This program works on my macOS and ...
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Break music player into usable components in SwiftUI
I created a music player using swiftUI.I need to ask a question when I break up my player into usable components. How should I take this approach with the music player? because the music player is one ...
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Trying (and failing) to implement the best conventions on OOP Swift
I'm making a MacOS app that will do some analysis on the user's calendar data. For now it only supports Apple's native calendar (EventKit), but I will later add ...
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realpath substitute with --relative-to and --relative-base support
In a bash 3 script for OSX machines, I needed the functional equivalent of the realpath command, complete with support for the ...
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bash script to delete files resurrected by Adobe InDesign bug
After a March update, Adobe Indesign will resurrect removed directories it was responsible for creating in the first place, but not any files except for one file called "AdobeFnt.lst". So where once ...
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Moving files from a directory to multiple with names same as file
I have a folder containing thousands of files and directories. I
would like to move all the files that are not contained in a sub
directory into a directory and name it the file name, while ...
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Bash script to scp specific, most-recent files from remote server
I'm writing a helper script that I wish to be able to share with my co-workers. We all work using macOS Mojave, but all have their own shell configurations. For example, I actually use ZSH and bash 5....
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Auto re-connecting to a VPN on OS X and pointing Squid accordingly
We need to tunnel certain applications over a VPN at work. Ideally we would use a dedicated firewall/network appliance for this but the only permanent infrastructure we have are Mac Pro's running ...
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Batch rename files recursively, and number the directory index
When dealing with iOS app bundle, It is not convenient to get the file by its path, but loading it by its name.
Need to batch rename images recursively, with Mac Bash. And to make the name unique, ...
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Batch rename files with Mac Bash,while the dir index should be recorded
I need to batch rename images with Mac Bash,while the directory index should be recorded.
To rename files ,turn
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SSH autokiller for connections from other systems
I was messing around with ssh and decided to write a python program that scans for any connections that aren't from the system, then terminates them. It works well ...
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Java program that relaunches itself in OS's terminal application
I wrote a Java program that when its executable .jar is opened manually, it re-opens itself inside the operating system's shell console. The purpose of this is to have a C#-style console application ...
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Drawing graphics and text using macOS Core Graphics
I have a small python project, which draws graphics and text onto a graphics context using MacOS's Core Graphics APIs. The idea is to make it easy for the user to write a few short lines, in order to ...
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Mac Bash: how to combine the open and str subtract to one line code? [closed]
new to bash , I use the following code to open the super folder with a file path.
function openUp(){
cd $(echo $1 | sed 's@\(.*\)/.*@\1@' );
open ..
}
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Reporting new USB storage devices on Linux and macOS with Python
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I wanted something for macOS (and Linux; maybe eventually Windows) that would simply wait for the user to connect a storage device and automatically select, or otherwise output the ...
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File path unified in Windows/MacOS/Linux
We are all tremendously happy about back slashes in Windows file systems and do not think that their sole purpose is to make life complicated for smart people who are capable of using different OS. ...
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appleseed command line widget (CLW)
─── appleseed on GitHub
appleseed v1.0.0 is a command line widget (CLW), I designed for macOS
and iTerm2. Its a flexible platform for process automation and added
eye candy. It utilizes ...
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Check SMART status on MacOS and pop up alert
So I don't know much about bash scripting. I am just a beginner. I made this script which checks the SMART status of my root volume and if it is failing then it immediately throws a pop up alert if ...
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Password string generation
I'm trying to create passwords using the following snippet to match a custom password policy. I've added three gtr statements, at the end of the string, to ...
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A C++ wrapper for Apple CoreFoundation
The wrapper makes it easy to manage memory when using CoreFoundation objects. It aims to act like a simple shared_ptr.
Here is a usage example:
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Spoofs MAC Address to manufacturer of user's choice, Linux or MacOS
I've made a BASh script for Linux/MacOS that allows you to search for a MAC manufacturer and then generates a MAC address from that company and then spoofs it to that using ...
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Script to temporarily drop admin privileges
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The aim of my project is to allow administrators to drop privileges for reasons of self-control. Currently, it works only on MacOS Sierra but the concept should be extensible to any Unix ...
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Find MIDI devices with certain names and make them usable
I'm working on a Swift app for macOS, where I take input from MIDI devices and transform that input. The MIDI devices being supported come in for flavors.
What my code does is scan for MIDI devices, ...
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Create and open a file to take lecture notes depending on day and time
I am just wondering what, if any, more elegant ways might exist to write a script to accomplish the task that the script below accomplishes. The script works, so I don't need it to be debugged, but I ...
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Bash manual page selection menu (version 3)
This is an interactive script for selecting and reading the manual pages from the terminal command line. This is the 3rd version of this script. If you want to see the evolution of this script, follow ...
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Bash manual page selection menu (version 2)
This is update to a previously asked question Bash manual page selection menu. This script generates a menu for the user to select which manual page he/she would like to read.
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A replacement for OSX's path_helper
I was having problems setting my path the way I wanted, I turned to Apple's path_helper but found it appends system dirs to the beginning of the path. I found someone had made a start on a replacement ...
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Selective Time Machine backup deletion
Time Machine is a useful backup service for Mac, but deleting multiple backups is cumbersome. This script allows mass deletion of unwanted backups while allowing specified "important" backups to ...
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Listening to IOKit events with Swift 3
This is my first program in Swift/Xcode. The full source code and xcode project is available in GitHub.
The part I would like reviewed is IOKeyEventMonitor.swift.
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Random password generator sh script
Yesterday, I was bored and decided to write a random password generator. At first it used numerous temporary files, changed that by using arrays.
This was written on OS X and should work on Linux ...
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Simple CodeReview Questions Notifications for OSX
Some days ago, I figured out that I'd like to get a notification every time a new question is asked here. So, I've made a really simple Python script, which uses ...
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Mounting a disk with the DiskArbitration framework
I have the following code that makes use of the DiskArbitration framework to mount a disk to its default location:
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