Here you’ll find handy commands for you to pop into terminal-


Is your Finder or Dock not responding? Pop in either of these two codes to relaunch them:

killall Finder
killall Dock

View all hidden Files in Mac OS:
(Replace true with false to turn off hidden files)

#!/bin/bash
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True
killall Finder

2D Dock:
(Replace “yes” with “no” to disable)

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock

Gradient behind a stack:

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -boolean YES killall Dock

Add an expose button to the Desktop:

defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-floater -bool YES killall Dock

Increase Dock magnification:
(Don’t go past 512)

defaults write com.apple.dock largesize -int 512

Enable quit in Finder:
(Handy when you don’t have much cpu)

defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool YES killall Finder

Make hidden icons in dock transparent:

defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES killall Dock

Pin Dock to the left:

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start

Pin Dock to the right:

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string end

Play Star Wars in terminal:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Disable Spotlight icon:
(Change 0 to 755 to re-enable it)

sudo chmod 0 /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app killall Spotlight

Set Screensaver as Wallpaper:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/
ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background

Play Games in Terminal:

Type emacs
then hit esc
type x
then type in:

Tetris
Doctor
Snake