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Find files that do not match expression and do stuff on them: find ./ \[expressions\] -prune -or \[dostuff\] Example: find ./ -name '.svn' -prune -or -type f -print finds all non-svn files and prints their paths to stdout.

i wanted to use the unix top command with GeekTools and found that this wasn’t as straight forward as i had expected… anyways, the following bundle does the trick: top -o cpu -l 2 -u -S | sed -e ‘2,/^Processes:/ d’

qlmanage -p FILE qlmanage -p FILE >& /dev/null &

…seems so handy! but doesn’t come with the system. now, obviously the problem has already been encountered before: http://c-command.com/scripts/finder/open-in-terminal so i used this to get started (and finished) - result is a Finder.

wanted to use Google Analytics together with iWeb & didn’t want to use BBEdit, someEdit, someOtherEdit or an Automator action… as i have to sync the iWeb content anyway - why not use a little (python) script to integrate the Google snippet?

/usr/bin/open -a Preview [FILENAME]

installed ampache (https://ampache.bountysource.com/wiki/Ampache_on_Debian) and after local play was working wanted to try xspf player: but it seemed like the link for the temporary playlist-id did not transfer correctly - solution was to modify the trunk version of show_xspf_player.

wanted to install Coin with sudo port -v install coin but only got -–> Verifying checksum(s) for Coin -–> Checksumming Coin-2.4.6.tar.gz Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for Coin-2.4.6.tar.gz

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Booting_from_the_Network_with_GRUB

linux add the following lines to user.js (in the profile folder): user_pref(“network.protocol-handler.external.ssh”, true); user_pref(“network.protocol-handler.warn-external.ssh”, false); user_pref(“network.protocol-handler.expose.ssh”, true); user_pref(“network.protocol-handler.app.ssh”, \ [noLineBreak] “/PATHTO/NAME_OF_SSHHANDLER_HELPER_SCRIPT”); ssh handler helper script #!/usr/bin/env bash xterm -e ssh \`echo $1 | sed -e "s/ssh:\\/\\///"\` # \# don't forget to set the script's exectuable flag # windows execute (or combine) ssh.