Archive for January, 2006

grep through files

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

I have occasion to look for various text inside of files in a directory. Grep is great for that. To look for some text in a whole directory of files you can type on the command line grep matchtext *.txt. That will pull up the files with the matched text and print it out on […]

Applescript and shell move files script

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Do you ever need to move a bunch of files to a specific location? Or do you want to backup certain files and need a nice method for moving them to a second drive or location? This following script can be helpful. You can re-write it for your particular purpose. I originally wrote it to […]

Restart Mac Classic from a script

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

I’ve been asked this a couple of times, so I’m revisiting this topic (see post 50). I didn’t think it would have been too common for people to want to restart classic from a script, but apparently there are some. If this doesn’t interest you, at least you might want to take a peek at […]

Wordpress 2

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

I upgraded this evening to Wordpress 2. It was a very smooth upgrade. You can’t tell by looking at my site that I did anything. I think most of the improvements to Wordpress are behind the scenes. Previewing your post in presentation format is nice. If you’ve ever wondered why the feed on this site […]