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Daily Trick 42. Quick Terminal Command
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If you're fans of single-liner for UNIX command, you can always use this quick Terminal command line execution trick to save the steps for executing Terminal command.
Here are the steps:
- Ctrl-Click on Terminal icon sitting on your Dock
- From the pop-up menu, choose New Command…
- Type the command line you want to execute on the appearing window pane
- And click on Run button for command line execution
With this trick, I am sure you can start to tweak around with simple command line, e.g. command line for New List View.
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7 Comments
Rubén
Works only when Terminal is running… I miss a system-wide shortcut for quick commands like Linux has…
matt
what's the benefit? Clicking just the terminal seems more simple to me....
Lasse
Wow exciting apps you have there, what are list of the dock? anyone recognize?
keigo
Hi there, I a new Mac user and I found your website really informative. Somehow I couldn't help but notice the cool dark grey color dock menu in this article. Can you teach or point me to a where I can achieve that same effect. Thanks :)
AzteKpr1de
Didn't work, I'm using Leopard...
abomintation27
sorry, but how do you make the linings and bg of the menu thing there purple and black? mine seems to be the normal one :( thanks! :)
webpick
didn't work. Only OPTIONS and OPEN choices available in the pop up menu. Using snow leopard.
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