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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 ...

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Incidentally, you can do a lot of these command-line exercises almost as succinctly with perl one-liners, which is one reason why perl was so popular among Unix-heads back in the days.