by Marilyn | Sep 23, 2021 | Article, email, How-To, Security, Terminal
Imagine you’re staring at a file or folder—perhaps confidential employee information that you need to send to your accountant. If attaching it to an email message makes you think, “That doesn’t seem like a good idea,” award yourself a gold star! Sending sensitive... 
by Kevin | Sep 29, 2009 | Mac, Terminal
I’m frequently asked by support people to send them log files, which can be pretty big. So how do I send a 25MB directory of logs to someone? Stupid tar tricks ofcourse! To just tar a directory and leave it full sized tar -cvf archive.tar /directory/to/tar where... 
by Marilyn | Jun 1, 2009 | Terminal
So your hard drive is getting kind of full. Or more space is being used and you want to know where it all is. The disk usage command, du, provides a great way to find out where your rig’s fat lies. I normally start at the root of the chubby volume, like so sudo...