This is just a quick way to create arbitrary passwords that may contain letters, numbers, and symbols. It takes an optional length...

The name of this file is /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.{domain_name}.{service_name}.plist Replace any text in curly braces {} with some appropriate information for your script. When you are finished creating the file, load it with:   launchctl load -w...

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Problem: You want your script to execute without overlapping another execution. Solution: Make a flag file so you know that your script is already executing. Extended problem: What if your script dies and leaves the flag file behind? Extended...

Problem: You want to support –really-long-option-names in your bash script and getopts won’t do it. More problems: You don’t want to use getopt because you want cross platform support or your platform isn’t supported. More problems than that: I can’t...