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How does one use a Mac without grep or piping? I bought a macbook thinking I'd learn how to use it... but after 3 years, all I can do on a Mac is open a web br
by problems 10y ago
How does one use a Mac without grep or piping?
I bought a macbook thinking I'd learn how to use it... but after 3 years, all I can do on a Mac is open a web browser and terminal.
- Gracana 10y agoThis book was written long before Mac OS X.
- mcguire 10y agoI thought OSX was a weird Mach/BSD amalgam. In which case, not so much.
- nwordsam3 10y agoI don't follow. When the book was written it was System 7 days. That's about as far removed from UNIX as you can get. This book was also before Linux was really on the radar outside of enthusiasts. You'd get 386BSD on a CD-ROM, FreeBSD was just released by Walnut Creek. This book was mostly a response to the absolutely atrocious landscape of commercial UNIX... the catalyst for Windows NT tremendous success.
- BatFastard 10y agoAs most developers do. Most everything else a pain in the Asteroid.
- pjmlp 10y ago> How does one use a Mac without grep or piping? Using Finder, XCode, Objective-C and Swift frameworks,...
- problems 10y agoBluh, don't get me started on Finder. Icons in directories would randomly be overlapping just because I hadn't been in them in a while and new files were added, they added this weird tagging system with colors that just doesn't make sense to me at all, it randomly thinks I want to view some sort of "recently used files and some random shit" list instead of my homedir. I don't know what the devs of it were thinking. Even bone stock Windows Explorer seems better. Easier to understand what's going on at least. I don't know why people seem to think Apple is some sort of UI god when they can't even make a usable file manager. Objective-C looks like a clusterfuck and I never want to touch it. Swift seems like a quite good solution to that and I hope it eventually becomes the full replacement - but now more non-Apple laptops have high DPI screens, so I don't think I'll be around to see it happen.
- DonHopkins 10y agoFrom day one, they should have called it the "Loser" instead of the "Finder".
- seanp2k2 10y agofor anyone unaware, mdfind foo on Mac does the same as locate foo on Linux. CLI spotlight search. Also, open bar will open a thing (file, folder, application, whatever) in the associated application. I typically do open . to pop a finder if I want a GUI to mess with files in the current dir.
- rileymat2 10y agoI completely agree with you, the "All My Files" view that it defaults to seems to not fit me very well. The nice thing is that it is configurable.
- dahart 10y agoThe finder is a wart. Apple does have a lot of good UI elsewhere, but the finder needs an overhaul so bad it hurts. Know what drives me the most nuts? That there's a single default key (Enter) to rename a folder, while you have to use a key chord (Command-O) to enter a folder. It's so backwards, renaming is not something I spend even remotely as much time doing as moving around. That's not to mention the so completely obvious missed opportunity to let the Enter key do what it says and Enter the folder.
- cmrdporcupine 10y agoWhat's ridiculously annoying is how good the Finder was under classic Mac OS compared to what exists now. The new Finder is a bad translation of some of the classic functionality overtop of the NeXT workspace manager. And it's a bad fusion of the two, in my opinion.
- derefr 10y ago> (Command-O) to enter a folder. I use Command+Down, which opens Finder shell-objects generally. It's the "descend" to Command+Up's "ascend."