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The Finder in OS X provides access to your files, folders, and drives, and helps you to keep them organized.

The Finder is the app that helps you navigate all of the files and folders on your Mac. The Finder lets you browse your apps, disks, files, and folders in a variety of ways. You can use the Finder to organize these items the way you want. You can also use the Finder to search for items, delete files you no longer want, and more.

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Is there any equivalent to Mac OS X's "Date Added" file attribute?

OS X keeps the date and time a file was added to the folder it's currently in, which is useful for sorting. Does any Unix/Linux filesystem or program offer similar functionality? This is not a duplicate of How do I do a ls and then sort the results…
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How to set the path OSX applications use

I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.4, and have my environment all customized through ~/.profile so that when I run GUI apps like Sublime Text or Eclipse from the command line open /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app they inherit my $PATH settings,…
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Customize Top Panel / Global Menu / Super-Wingpanel in Elementary OS Luna

How on ElementaryOS change Wingpanel on Top Panel / Global Menu / Super-Wingpanel like OS X ?
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File name character encoding gets confused when called with find -exec

I'd like to simplify the example, but any further simplification removes the problem … I already stripped my script down to this: #!/bin/sh echo "$1" | sed 's/[^[:alnum:]]//g' This does what I expect it to do when called directly, but not as part…
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Unix command equivalent for OS X Finder's Duplicate Exactly

What command can reproduce this function in bash? In Finder select File then press ⇧⌥ to make the command visible (⇧⌥⌘D). In AppleScript it's available as tell application "Finder" to duplicate selection with exact copy UPDATE. I checked the…
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Hide a file extension using Terminal

I have about 40 files in my folder. I selected all the files and pressed command+I. Instead of opening one Get Info window, my Mac shows up 40 windows! Is there a terminal command to hide the file extension from being shown when I open this folder…
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Bash script to hide/show files

I prepared a little bash script to toggle the visibility of my hidden OS X files. if (defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE); then defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE elif (defaults write com.apple.finder…
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mlbackup / rsync / hard links data size

I am new to mlbackup/rsync and the concept of hard links, so I am a little confused after creating a backup data set via mlbackup. So here's the scenario: I am backing up "folder A" to "folder B". Inside "folder A", I have file "X", "Y", and "Z";…
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(Mac) How to create keyboard shortcuts to move individual photos to a particular folder

I have tens of thousands of photos I would like to sort efficiently. I want to scroll through the photos and individually make a decision as to whether they belong in, say, one of 3 folders: family, photography or trash. Mac already has a feature…
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How to remove nth character from set of filenames?

Hi I am looking for a bash solution to batch file renaming. I have files acquired from a digital camera I am importing as time-lapse footage. Every 1000 images the JPG file renaming jumps as…
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On MAC OS X 10.11.4 - Loss of extended file attribute when copying a file

I have a file with a comment as extended attribute. This is how I can see the attribute from the Terminal: mdls -name kMDItemFinderComment path_to_file I get the answer kMDItemFinderComment = "my_comment" To copy this file to new_location while…
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Create folder based on filename

I have a folder with a number of .png files, for example: Jeff Smith 1.png Jeff Donald 1.png Jeff Donald 2.png Jeff Smith 2.png Jeff Roberts.png Kyle Reds.png Kyle Reds 1.png Kyle Blues 1.png Kyle Blues 2.png Kyle Person.png etc etc How would I…
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