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    Articles related to Unix, the powerful operating system that’s the foundation of many modern systems including Linux and macOS.

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$ brew doctor «A newer Command Line Tools release is available» but Software Update cannot find it

What to do when Homebrew says «A newer Command Line Tools release is available» – but macOS Catalina doesn’t confirm that?

Oliver 6. February 2020
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How to merge two folders in macOS using rsync in Terminal.app

Even though Apple introduced something similar to a “merge” feature in macOS Finder, you may want to fall back to “rsync” as a more controllable method for properly merging files & folders in macOS.

Oliver 8. May 2018
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Unix Bash Shell script to fetch a list of Websites using CURL

This Unix Bash Shell script was designed to fetch a list of website URLs using curl, returning – upon success – the HTTP status code and the final URL retrieved following redirects.

Oliver 20. February 2017
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macOS Terminal: unzip a ZIP file using the tar command in bash

An alternative but handy approach to unzip files from the macOS Terminal.app

Oliver 5. November 2016
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OS X: create an ISO disk image

In OS X it is fairly simple to create a virtual disk image of the type “ISO” by using built-in UNIX tools and the Terminal. We are going to use the “dd” UNIX tool to copy a whole CD/DVD into a new ISO disk image file.

Oliver 6. October 2013
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OS X: Geek Alarm Clock

Find out what a Geek’s way is to set an audio-visual Alarm Clock under OS X

Oliver 8. February 2010
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