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    The Terminal.app is the UNIX shell emulator included in Apple macOS

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Get Alerted if Mac Processes & System use too High CPU

Finally proactive alerts on high CPU system usage – straight to your macOS Notification Center.

Oliver 10. September 2025
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Trigger customized Notifications from the macOS Terminal and Scripts 🔔

A hidden AppleScript command line program allows you to to show individual Notifications.

Oliver 20. August 2025
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Download your Steam Windows Game files on Mac

Legal way to overcome Steam’s Platform detection and «Invalid Platform» errors.

Oliver 20. October 2024
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Make your own macOS Finder icons from any image

Using this script for the Terminal-App.

Oliver 16. September 2024
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Combine multiple ZIP files on Mac

A quick way to merge 2 or more ZIP files into one, using the macOS Terminal.

Oliver 5. July 2023
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List all non UTF-8 encoded files in a directory

A shell command that recursively lists all files within a directory, which are not encoded as UTF-8.

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Oliver 22. June 2023
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macOS Scripted Setup – say Goodbye to manual User settings & App installs

An easy adjustable open-source script that will save your precious time.

Oliver 2. May 2023
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Unzip Split ZIP File Archive in macOS

Unzip splitted ZIP archive files zip.001, zip.002,… with macOS

Two ways how to unzip splitted ZIP files: using an app for that, or do-it-yourself via Terminal.

Oliver 5. April 2021
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Continuous download of remote files with «rsync» from the macOS Terminal

A better alternative to «scp» when transferring multiple large files – which continues where it stopped in case of interrupted connectivity.

Oliver 7. March 2021
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Instantly show the Dock in macOS [M1 Apple Silicon Macs]

Some people commented that my previously proposed solution to instantly show/hide the Dock in Big Sur is not working on their new M1 based Apple Silicon Macs.

I was able to investigate and provide a working solution, tested on a M1 MacBook Pro:

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Oliver 13. December 2020
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