Add URLs to Reading List automatically from e-mails – Mac OS X Hints.
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Script to Delete ‘Where From’ Metadata
Delete ‘Where From’ metadata from files – Mac OS X Hints.
I knew I would have to do this often, so instead of running a shell script every time I wanted to strip the Where From, I wrote an AppleScript
This is why and how you write scripts. 🙂
Ten Simple Automator Workflows
This article includes ten more little known Automator hacks, not included in the guide, that you can create in a few easy steps.
on makeuseof.com. (Thanks to @marrathon.)
Shell Loop Interaction with SSH
If you have a bash script with a while loop that reads from stdin and uses ssh inside that loop, the ssh command will drain all remaining data from stdin ((This is not only true for ssh but for any command in the loop that reads from stdin by default)). This means that only the first line of data will be processed.
I encountered this issue yesterday ((I won’t go into details here, since it is for a very specialized purpose. I will say that it involved jot, ssh, an aging Solaris based network appliance, and some new fangly XML/Web 2.0)). This website explains why the behavior occurs and how to avoid it.
A flawed method to run commands on multiple systems entails a shell while loop over hostnames, and a Secure Shell SSH connection to each system. However, the default standard input handling of ssh drains the remaining hosts from the while loop
Convert Numbers Files to Excel, Word and PDF
John C Welch has posted two scripts that convert Numbers files.