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Installing sshpass on OS X

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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. [Read more…]

Speedtest from the CLI

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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.

 

Clean up the “Open With” menu on OS X

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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 will really clutter it up.

When that starts to happen you can use the following snippet to clear all the dupes, as well as restart finder.

 

Bash alias for updating all software

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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 pretty handy when you want to fire off a system update. Not only OS X apps, but homebrew and ruby gems all from the command line.