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Ping-Sweep From the Terminal in OS X

I did something stupid: I lost one of the routers on my network. I currently have a dual-router network setup, mainly for the purpose of running a wireless b/g network and a wireless-N network (5 Ghz). Regardless, I couldn’t remember what I set the IP address to for the b/g router. After doing a quick Google-search, I found an easy way to do a ping-sweep in the OS X terminal. Continue reading…

Terminal Tip: Symbolically Linking Wildcard Filenames

I am currently researching a Dropbox-based preference syncing solution for Mac OS X. In my research, I came across a really handy terminal tip. If you want to symbolically link (ln –s source target) a file or folder to another location that follows a named pattern, such as com.adobe.*, you can supply the pattern for the link source parameter. Continue reading…