I have uninstalled and installed Homebrew 3 times now because it seems to never allow me to install anything as it denies me permissions at the end of most installations. As an example I will post this libjpeg download scenario that I’m currently facing. I try to install libjpeg and get: $ brew install libjpeg … Read more
I am using Git. I did a pull from a remote repo and got an error message: Please enter a commit message to explain why this merge is necessary, especially if it merges an updated upstream into a topic branch. I try to type a message and press Enter but nothing happens. How do I … Read more
The command code . doesn’t work in this manual. All the other steps before that worked. How can I call the Visual Studio Code in an OS X terminal? pwd /Users/mona/nodejs/myExpressApp code . -bash: code: command not found I ended up opening it from within Visual Code Studio by changing the workspace, but why won’t that … Read more
I know the combination Ctrl+A to jump to the beginning of the current command, and Ctrl+E to jump to the end. But is there any way to jump word by word, like Alt+←/→ in Cocoa applications does? 18 s 18 On Mac OS X – the following keyboard shortcuts work by default. Note that you … Read more
I’m using BitBucket with Xcode and Git for version control, and recently I changed all of my passwords (thanks Adobe!). Unsurprisingly, I’m no longer able to push my local commits to my repository on BitBucket (Authentication failed for ‘https://______.git’), but I’m forgetting how to update the cached password on my iMac. Somehow I’ve been unable … Read more
What is the proper way to modify environment variables like PATH in OS X? I’ve looked on Google a little bit and found three different files to edit: /etc/paths ~/.profile ~/.tcshrc I don’t even have some of these files, and I’m pretty sure that .tcshrc is wrong, since OS X uses bash now. Where are these variables, … Read more
Currently I am using Node.js v0.6.16 on Mac OS X 10.7.4. Now I want to upgrade it to the latest Node.js v0.8.1. But after downloading and installing the latest package file from nodejs.org, I found that system is still using v0.6.16 instead of v0.8.1 when I typed “node -v” in a terminal. Is there any … Read more
Final update: I had forgotten to run the initdb command. By running this command ps auxwww | grep postgres I see that postgres is not running > ps auxwww | grep postgres remcat 1789 0.0 0.0 2434892 480 s000 R+ 11:28PM 0:00.00 grep postgres This raises the question: How do I start the PostgreSQL server? … Read more
How can I remove those annoying Mac OS X .DS_Store files from a Git repository? 2 28 Remove existing files from the repository: find . -name .DS_Store -print0 | xargs -0 git rm -f –ignore-unmatch Add this line: .DS_Store to the file .gitignore, which can be found at the top level of your repository (or … Read more
On Linux, I can use netstat -pntl | grep $PORT or fuser -n tcp $PORT to find out which process (PID) is listening on the specified TCP port. How do I get the same information on Mac OS X? 1 17 On macOS Big Sur and later, use this command: sudo lsof -i -P | … Read more
