macOS X

Showing hidden files in Mac OS #

Just do 'Command' + 'Shift' + '.'

Or, to make it permantently:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles true
killall Finder # restart Finder

Switching between different installed Java versions in macOS X #

Once you have several java versions installed, you can configure your .bash_profile to have the following lines:

alias j19="export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 19`;  java -version"
alias j17="export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 17`;  java -version"
alias j16="export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 16`;  java -version"
alias j12="export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 12`;  java -version"
alias j11="export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 11`;  java -version"
alias j10="export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 10`;  java -version"
alias j9="export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home  -v 9`;   java -version"
alias j8="export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home  -v 1.8`; java -version"
alias j7="export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home  -v 1.7`; java -version"

Or, in case your user does not have many permissions or/and have used homebrew:

alias j8='export  JAVA_HOME="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@8/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home"; java -version'
alias j11='export JAVA_HOME="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@11/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home"; java --version'
alias j17='export JAVA_HOME="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@17/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home"; java --version'
alias j18='export JAVA_HOME="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@18/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home"; java --version'

Generating self-signed SSL certificates to be used in Nginx #

The same command works on Linux.

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 36500 -newkey rsa:2048  \ 
  -keyout private-selfsigned.key -out public-selfsigned.crt

Discover the IPs that are being resolved for a domain #

nslookup google.se

Creating a brew PR to upgrade a version #

Let’s take Opera as an example. The Opera’s tap is here.

To upgrade brew casks:

brew bump-cask-pr opera --version 77.0.4054.276

And for regular formulas:

brew bump-formula-pr  ...

Creating permanent aliases #

Create a file like ~/.zsh_aliases

cd; touch .zsh_aliases

Add alias on it;

echo "myalias=\"ls\"" >> .zsh_aliases

Reference the alias in your bash profile by adding the follow lines.

if [ -f ~/.zsh_aliases ]; then
. ~/.zsh_aliases
else 
  touch .zsh_aliases;
  echo echo "myalias=\"ls\"" >> .zsh_aliases;
fi

Oh My Zsh #

Show date time in the right side of the window

RPROMPT='%{$fg_bold[blue]%} %D %T % %{$reset_color%}'