Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

If you’re new to the world of the Linux command line, then you know how eye-openingly powerful it can be. In fact, the sky’s the limit with what you can do from the Command Line interface. But, ...

That should, in theory, put the output of the command on the clipboard. But in this case, it wasn’t working. After much investigation, what I learned is that some Unix commands, httpd -t included, don ...

The 'clip' command has the functions of 'saving the output of other commands to the clipboard' and 'saving the contents of a specified file to the clipboard.' This time, we will actually use the ...

This post covers some well-known Linux commands that, when used with particular options and arguments, can save you some time or ensure that what you are doing is what you intended. The first “trick” ...

Locating the right piece of information from a Cisco router can often be a challenge. Particularly, the show running-config command can return pages and pages of output. David Davis introduces you to ...

Output commands, as I noted above, can be chained after an input command; using an output command automates the process of saving a framed image somewhere, and it lets you bypass the final menu of ...

In which Adam demonstrates the truth in the old PowerShell adage: "The more you can limit the number of objects returned to the pipeline, the faster you code will run." Lots of commands will return ...

Today’s hint will probably only appeal to those of you learning to use the Unix side of OS X. A while back, I was trying to capture the ouput of the Unix command httpd -t (which runs a syntax check on ...