If you don’t have PuTTY installed these days, use Homebrew to do it painlessly. Don’t have Homebrew?
Open Terminal and paste:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)
Then type the command:
brew install putty
Then PuTTY should just work fine without any hassle. The command for converting a PuTTY Private Key would be:
puttygen privatekey.ppk -O private-openssh -o privatekey.pem
Computers are smart. I had a folder full of screen captures (PNG) and I needed them to all be JPGs.
Open Terminal and put in this command:
mkdir jpegs; sips -s format jpeg *.* --out jpegs
Voila!
You smart computer.
I was going through some old CDs and they were pretty scratched. Some of them could not be read so my computer was a little slow on making a decision and spitting the discs back out. At one point, a certain CD didn’t come out at all (and was not showing up anywhere). In fact, I completely forgot it was in there. By that time, I had to resort to opening Terminal and typing in:
drutil tray eject
Then your disc will be out in a jiffy.
If you’re a newbie to using SSH, here’s a quick OS X Terminal command guide. These should help you become less dependent on websites to do domain look ups or change passwords in control panels. Becoming friends with Terminal means an increase in productivity.
Commands for Web Site Management
1. host
If you need to find out the IP of a domain, type
[root@droplet ~]# host cloudsy.com Read More
cloudsy.com has address 66.240.232.17
Many folks coming from the Windows world often ask where they can find the PuTTY client for OS X. While I do not wish to undermine the quality of the client (as it is, quite likely, the best for Windows), there is no such need for it on OS X. Why? This is simple – because all of the functionality that PuTTY offers, such as SSH, Telnet and Serial abilities come bundled with your OS X install. Since OS X is based on UNIX, it comes with a massive array of utilities that can be found across most different UNIX based OS’s and SSH and Telnet is no exception. (If you must install PuTTY on your computer, just read our other article How To Install PuTTY On OS X.) Read More
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