Useful Tips for Developers who used Mac

These tips can be used in OSX 10.9

1. Open the finder window at current terminal location.

    open .

2. Open a terminal at a finder window

    you have to create your own shortcut for this. follow below steps to do that

• Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Services
• Tick the checkbox at New Terminal at Folder
• Click the none text(light grey) in right side of New Terminal at Folder checkbox
• Press your own shortcut key combination

I experienced this shortcut is not available until you access this feature via context menu.

• Right click on a finder window -> Services -> New Terminal at Folder 

and one thing I noticed is until you restart the machine, It takes some time to open the terminal after you press the shortcut keys.

3. Create new empty text file using terminal

    touch <textfile_name>.txt

4. Open a text file using terminal, Write something to it and Exit from it

    vi <textfile_name>

• if you want to write something on file, press i
• if you write nothing on file and wants to exit, press q
• if you write something on file and wants to save it and quit, press wq
• if you write something on file and wants to quit without saving it, press q!

5. Search inside files using grep command

    grep "text to search" -R .

   Here R option used to search recursively. dot(.) is used to say that search from current folder

6. View hidden files using terminal

    ls -al

   a is used to say show all files l parameter is used to say long list(descriptive manner) the files

I referred below articles to write this.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2012623/creating-an-empty-txt-file-on-mac-os-without-opening-an-application-first

[2] http://superuser.com/questions/72774/search-through-text-files-in-mac-os-x

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/420456/open-terminal-here-in-mac-os-finder