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get rid of mac's ._ meta files on unix command line

When a mac accesses storage not formatted in it's own HFS format, it stores it's additional metadata about the file in another file named the same but starting with "._" It can be annoying and when you're accessing a remote volume that's source control managed with subversion, they show up your status information. This bash shell script will get remove of all ._metadata files residing below the current working directory.

#!/bin/sh
for i in `find . -regex '.*\._.*'`; do rm $i; echo "removing $i"; done


If you save that as "/home/$USER/bin/cleanup" and do a "chmod 777 /home/$USER/bin/cleanup" it will be available next time you open a terminal by just typing "cleanup".

Reverse DNS from command line

Quick and easy way to look up a domain name given an IP address.

dig -x 17.254.3.183


List 10 largest files/directories within the current directory

From the textdrive fora

du -sk * | sort -n | tail -10


This will list the top 10 largest files and/or directories below the directory where you run this command.

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