Excluding files from your repository Sometimes you may have types of files or folders in your source code tree that you do not want to include in your source code repository. Everyne developing with Visual Studio will immediately know what I mean: VS automatically makes bin and obj subfolders for your project folder in which it puts the buildresults and also creates *.suo files with your personal settings for a solution.
If you are in a position where you want to remove the colossus that is Xcode, here is the terminal command to use.
sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools –mode=all
In my case, I was using migration assistant to migrate my applications and user account to a new laptop. My older laptop had an older version of Xcode that I didn’t want included in the migration and as it is so big, I didn’t want to take the chance.
Something that has bugged me recently is that when I go to proxy on a particular port, the port is already in use and I get the following error.
bind: Address already in use
channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 8090
Could not request local forwarding.
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This is a super simple command but there is something about the following sequence of characters that I simply cannot retain in my brain.
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Excellent post from one of my favourite sites – Become a command line ninja with these time saving shortcuts
This is a simple one. For some reason, every time I use the screen command in terminal, I forget the commands.
There are probably lots of cool reasons to use screen but I use it to run a script over a longish period. The advantage of screen is I can start the script in the screen instance and detach from it. I can close my laptop and return later to my terminal, open my screen and check the progress of the script. Also, you can run multiple instances of a script as each screen has its own process.
So the basic commands I use and tend to forget are… Continue reading
Sick of typing out long commands, bad at typing, forget commands from time to time or all 3 like me… then aliases are here to help.
Basically, you can use a handy short memorable alias for a long and possible complicated one in terminal by doing the following.
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