Sometimes applications crash, or at least they don’t behave the way they should. The kill command will come in handy when you need to kill an application. I use this command to find the Distiller pid then kill it:
kill -9 $(ps -auxwww | grep Distiller | grep -v grep | awk ‘{print $2}’)
One of the [...]
Here I am changing a whole directory of file names. I am changing the extension of any file with the .tif extension to .jpg.
ls *.jpg | awk ‘{print(”mv “$1″ “$1)}’ | sed ’s/.jpg/.tif/2′ | /bin/sh
Of course you can change the sed regular expression to change it to whatever you want to change the file names [...]
To use the terminal to print a postscript page of a man page use these commands:
groff -Tps -man /usr/share/man/man7/groff.7 | lpr -P LaserWriter_8500
I’m using an Apple Laserwriter 8500. To find the printers available to your lpr command use the command lpstat -a to list them. If there isn’t a printer available, you will need to [...]
