I recently moved my whole local web development area over to using MacPorts stuff, rather than using MAMP on my Mac. I've been getting into Python/Django and didn't really need MAMP any more.
Thing is, I have uninstalled MAMP from the Applications folder, with the preferences file too, but how come when I run the 'locate MAMP' command in the Terminal it still shows all my /Applications/MAMP/ stuff as if it's all still there? And when I 'cd' into /Applications/MAMP/ it doesn't exist?
Something to do with locate being a kind of index searching system, hence things these old filepaths are cached? Please explain why, and how to sort it so they don't show anymore.
You've got the right idea: locate uses a database called 'locatedb'. It's normally updated by system cron jobs (not sure which on OS X); you can force an update with the updatedb command. See http://linux-sxs.org/utilities/updatedb.html among others.
Also, if you don't find files which you expect to, note this important caveat from the BUGS section of OSX' locate(1) man-page:
The locate database is typically built by user ''nobody'' and the
locate.updatedb(8) utility skips directories which are not readable
for user ''nobody'', group ''nobody'', or world. For example, if your
HOME directory is not world-readable, none of your files are in the database.
The other answers are correct about needing to update the locate database. I've got this alias to update my locate DB:
alias update_locate='sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb'
I actually don't use locate all that much anymore now that I've found mdfind. It uses the spotlight file index which OSX is much better at keeping up to date compared to the locatedb. It also has quite a bit more power in what it can search from the command line.
Indeed the locate command searches through an index, that's why it's pretty fast.
The index is generated by the updatedb command, which is usually run as a nightly
or weekly job.
So to update it manually, just run updatedb.
According to the man page, its database is updated once a week:
NAME
locate.updatedb -- update locate database
SYNOPSIS
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb
DESCRIPTION
The locate.updatedb utility updates the database used by locate(1). It is typically run once a week by
the /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate script.
Take a look at the locate man page
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?locate+1
You'll see that locate searches a database, not your actual filesystem.
You can update that database by using the updatedb command.
Also, since it's a database, unless you do update it regularly, locate wouln't find files that are in your filesystem that arn't in the database.
Related
With macOS High Sierra a new file system is available: APFS.
This file system supports clone operations for files: No data duplication on storage.
cp command has a flag (-c) that enables cloning in Terminal (shell).
But I didn't find a way to identify theses cloned files after.
Somebody knows how to identify cloned files with a shell command, or a flag in a existent command, like ls?
After 3 years and 2 months... I received a lot of points because of this question here on stackoverflow.
So yesterday I decided to revisit this topic :).
Using fcntl and F_LOG2PHYS is possible to check if files are using same physical blocks or not.
So I made an utility using this idea and put it on github (https://github.com/dyorgio/apfs-clone-checker).
It is only the first release guys, but I hope that the community can improve it.
Now maybe a good tool to remove duplicated files using clone APFS feature can be born. >:)
The command you have used, is not a feature of APFS-Filesystem. The CP -c command calls a function named "clonefile" which is part of bsd since 2015 (s. Man-Page)
http://www.manpagez.com/man/2/clonefile/
So if you clone a file for example, you can change attributes from Original and the Clone can have diffrent Attributs.
I think, the Feature, you are searching for is build in per Copy and Write. You can see the different, if you make a clone with Time Machine.
A have not found a commando per Terminal today, to show this differences, but the clonefile command therefore is not the right function.
The only Known-Way today to Show changed Attributes in Clones is Apple Time Machine Backup Solution.
It`s a Snapshot Solution. Something about this, in this Apple Dev Support-Case:
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/81171
I think this is meant to be an internal proprietary feature of APFS that you are not supposed to be playing with. It strikes me as a relatively useless feature. If you want to have two files that are the same and use standard APIs, try either hard or soft links, or else Apple aliases.
I trying to find a SQL script that a former colleague of mine used to run periodically. His instructions are to log onto his machine and go to his recent files and select the file.
He doesnt remember where the file physically exists as every time he runs it he would open the file via this method.
My question is how do I access this list? Problem is we wiped his machine and made a copy of his HD. ive tried navigating to \USERS\Application Data\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Shell\ but there is nothing obvious I can use here.
Appreciate your comments.
I believe this is tracked in the in the following location (depending on your version of SQL) in the registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SQL Server Management Studio\11.0\FileMRUList
[Edit] On a side note, rather than looking for this recent list I would use a grep tool like textcrawler (free, and awesome) to search for a particular string (presumably you remember some sprocs that are called or tables that are accessed by the script) within all .sql files on the hard disk.
In SSMS version 18, the registry path to the recent file list is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SQL Server Management Studio\18.0_IsoShell\MRUItems{01235aad-8f1b-429f-9d02-61a0101ea275}\Items
Keep in mind, you must restart SSMS for any changes to take effect.
Not sure if I should be asking here or Server Fault.
Anyhow, I recently started a project at a new job that has SVN installed. I didn't use it even though I was given SSH access with some keygen thing. But now I've done some reading online for beginner's and I'm having a tough time getting past "which svn" after I input a command through SSH. I guess that tells me the path to the repository (which is /usr/bin/svn) but I don't even know how to get to that directory (I'm using Terminal on Mac OS X).
All this makes me feel pretty stupid, since I've never really had to use the terminal to do web projects before and this is my first experience with SVN via SSH (Hell, first time using SSH even).
I have been googling and reading for a weekend now, but I figured someone on here probably has a good idea of where to find the files or to check which are under SVN etc. I think my main problem is finding out how to use the terminal to "get" to the folder I want to be working on.
I did read up on the commands to check if a file is under SVN, check out, update, commit, etc. I would just like to know how to get to these files to do that. Sorry for the noob question and thanks in advance
Bonus points if someone explains the benefits of SSH (I totally understand the benefits of SVN and would love to learn it properly)
You're likely better off using a subversion client. Two of the most popular ones for OS X are http://versionsapp.com and http://zennaware.com/cornerstone/index.php (lately my dev friends seem to like cornerstone more.)
These should let you do all (or nearly all) SVN functions, but by using a GUI. You'll still want to learn the terminology. Take a look at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.6/svn.basic.html
You want SVN+SSH as it's more secure, but that shouldn't mean you have to use the command line.
Well there is no need to go to the /usr/bin even though svn resides there. /usr/bin is a standard location which is automatically included when the system tries to resolve the location of a file. You should be able to just start using SVN commands like:
svn checkout ...
The benefits of using SVN and SSH are separate questions all together.
svn list --verbose http://host_name/svn_dir will give you a list of the current versioned projects (including revision number and modified date)
svn checkout http://host_name/svn_dir/repository_name projectx will checkout the repo (creating a working copy on your local machine)
I'd recommend the manual here, even if you don't read it to start with and just use it as your first reference point when needed.
Is it possible to install the entire database(postgresql8.2) via command prompt or batch file or registry file bypassing the trivial procedure for installation. But then to a question comes that, how can we supply default parameters such as name,password,language,default location of database? Currently I'm working on 'Windows XP' platform.
Thank you.
For 8.3 and lower the obvious answer is: http://pginstaller.projects.pgfoundry.org/ which supports or supported silent installations. For more recent versions, please read: http://forums.enterprisedb.com/posts/list/2135.page
Use of existing installers would simplify your life and be where I would start.
This being said there is no reason you can't generate a script to register dll's properly run initdb, etc. This will take some extra knowledge of both PostgreSQL and Windows, and will be mostly suitable for custom solutions (i.e. not cases where you merely are packaging software that runs with PostgreSQL). I don't think an complete answer can be given here because once you need such a solution you need to design your installation around if. Books could be written on that topic. The docs http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/install-windows.html should get you started however since the only difference really between installing from source and installing from the precompiled source is just that you need to compile the source files first.
Failing that you could take a look at the binary zip packages. Typically these can be extracted and PostgreSQL can be run from inside them.
I love Oracle SQL Developer so I find myself using it a lot to complete my daily tasks. The thing is that my collection of custom snippets only keeps growing so I though it'd be interesting to learn how to backup them.
Before asking blindly I did a bit of work trying to figure out how. I've performed a search within the application's folder by "snippet" and found the following file:
oracle.sqldeveloper.snippet.jar
which quite probably contains my beloved pieces of code. I could just save that file hoping the best, but why not doing it the right way and perhaps being able to, say, only backup the ones and I've created, avoiding the ones that came out-of-the-box, et cétera?
Any suggestion would be really appreciated!
On my WinXP machine, I found my User Snippets at:
C:\Documents and Settings\eddie\Application Data\SQL Developer\UserSnippets.xml
PS: Replace eddie with your username.
Agreeing with Eddie Awad, just copy the xml file. And for windows7 the sqldeveloper User-Snippets file can be found here:
C:\Users[username]\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer\UserSnippets.xml
If you use SQL Developer on Mac OS X, then the snippets can be found in ~/Library/Application Support/SQL Developer/UserSnippets.xml
Are you running on Windows? Check your "C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\SQL Developer" directory for a UserSnippets.xml file, it contains all user defined snippets.
Also, check the online help for "Location of User-Related Information" topic. It has location of files that hold other user defined info.
-Dave
Why not create a package on the Oracle server for daily maintenance that way it's stored with your DB and in your DB backups?
EDIT: I do this and find it even easier to use them later on when performing routine maintenance tasks. Being able to call a packaged procedure is really, REALLY handy sometimes.
Agreeing with Spyder -
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developer\UserSnippets.xml
is the place. But I only found this after creating my first new Snippet.
After that, I was able to edit the xml to add new snippets and new categories. Once a change is made to the xml, SQLDev has to be relaunched. (And since it's an xml, I'm going to see if I can save it to Git to share amongst my team when I get a minute...)
For SQL Developer 3.2.20.09 on OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.*), the snippet file is located in ~/.sqldeveloper/UserSnippets.xml.
On OS-X Yosemite (10.10.5) I found the current UserSnippets.xml for the current SQL Developer ( Version 4.1.0.19 ) also in
~/.sqldeveloper/UserSnippets.xml