Recently I noticed that whenever I used screen not only was my .bash_profile not working but every time that I ran a command I was presented with this lovely error
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Installing sshpass on OS X
I recently came across ansible and decided to give it a go, actually kind of upset that I never came across it before as I can already imagine quite a few cases when it could have come in handy and saved me a lot of time when it came to running the same command across multiple servers.
I went about installing ansible by using Homebrew which I have installed on my MacBook Air but soon noticed that I was not able to run commands against all the servers since sshpass was not installed on my machine. I figured the easy route would be to use Homebrew and just install it, but just searching for sshpass with Homebrew I was presented with the following error message.
Speedtest from the CLI
The following alias that I have setup on my machine is really nice for running a speedtest directly from the CLI with out having to use your browser. I have matched up the results with various online tests and it seems to match up almost perfectly with what they display. alias speedtest=’echo “scale=2; `curl –progress-bar -w “%{speed_download}” … Read More
Clean up the “Open With” menu on OS X
I have what I guess may be a bad habit of installing all the new software I come across, tinkering with it and then removing it. Unfortunately there are a lot of times doing this can clog up your “Open With” menu on OS X. I have noticed even using some nightly builds of software … Read More
Bash alias for updating all software
Sometimes I get on these hour long rabbit hole digs into other peoples dot files on GitHub, with that being said I have come across some pretty handy aliases and such that I thought I should share periodically as some of them are pretty useful. The following I have added to my .bash_profile and its … Read More
Little Snitch + Google Chrome = ksfetch issues
So Google Chrome has recently stopped playing nicely with Little Snitch, mainly because there is an issue with Chrome that it creates a temp file to check for updates every X hours. Since its making a new temp file for some reason it sets off Little Snitch, which is quite annoying. By entering the following … Read More