Terminal.app keeps creating copies of my settings files

siemsen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:55:58 GMT

Under Leopard, I like to conveniently open Terminal windows onto remote systems. I've created several settings files in Terminal, one for each remote system that I want to access. To open window, I right-click on the Terminal icon in the Dock, expand the "New Window" menu item, and select the remote system I want to connect to. This has worked very well for me for years.

Today I tried to improve the process. I created a shell script for each remote system. Each script contains a single line like

open /Library/Application Support/Terminal/system-abc.terminal

I created the system-abc.terminal files by doing Terminal->Shell->Export Settings... When I execute the shell script, a new Terminal window pops up as expected. This is great - now I can execute the shell script from Quicksilver, so I have a way to open Terminals with a few keystrokes.

This works quite well, but it has an unfortunate side effect. Whenever I execute the shell script, a new menu item gets added to Terminal's list of remote systems. In other words, after executing the above script once and then right-click on the Terminal icon in the dock, and expand "New Window", I find a brand-new thing in the list. The new thing is called "system-abc 1". If I run the script again, I find another new thing named "system-abc 2". Etc.

So it works, but it clutters up the list of remote systems. Is this a bug in Terminal?

Keyword Searching

tmcmurtr — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:44:41 GMT

Hi all,

I am in the process of building a shell script as part of a auditing utility. It will search a specified directory for keywords and output results of the file path, and line number that the word was found on. I built a test script (shown below) that does just this, but egrep apparently does not allow MS word, excel, etc... documents to be read. I was wondering if someone could point me in an alternate direction that would allow me to search these types of documents as well? (Wordfile is a file that is create elsewhere with a list of words to search for e.g. bus)

Thanks!

Code:

cat << EOF > ${TMPDIR}/scanit

rm -f ${TMPDIR}/strings

strings "\$1" | egrep -n -i -f ${TMPDIR}/wordlist ^\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}$ >> ${TMPDIR}/strings

if [ -s ${TMPDIR}/strings ]

then

        echo >> ${TMPDIR}/${HOSTNAME}.o

        echo "File:  \$1" >> ${TMPDIR}/${HOSTNAME}.o

        file "\$1"  >> ${TMPDIR}/${HOSTNAME}.o

        cat ${TMPDIR}/strings >> ${TMPDIR}/${HOSTNAME}.o

fi

rm -f ${TMPDIR}/strings

EOF



HOSTNAME=`hostname`

export HOSTNHAME



if [ $# -eq 0 ]

then

        echo "You must specify the start of the directory tree to search"

        exit

fi



find $1 -type f 2> ${TMPDIR}/${HOSTNAME}_find_errors | tee ${TMPDIR}/${HOSTNAME}_filelist | \

head -100 |\

sed -e "s+^+sh -x ${TMPDIR}/scanit \"+" -e 's/$/"/' > ${TMPDIR}/scanitnow



sh -x ${TMPDIR}/scanitnow 1> ${TMPDIR}/${HOSTNAME}_scan_run 2>&1



cd ${TMPDIR}

if [ -s ${HOSTNAME}.o ]

then

        date "+%Y%M%d_%H:%m:%S: indicators found on ${HOSTNAME}" > ${HOSTNAME}_scan_results.csv

        cat ${HOSTNAME}.o >> ${HOSTNAME}_scan_results.csv

else

        date "+%Y%M%d_%H:%m:%S:  No indicators found on ${HOSTNAME}" > ${HOSTNAME}_scan_results.csv

fi



zip ${HOSTNAME}_scan.zip ${HOSTNAME}_find_errors ${HOSTNAME}_filelist ${HOSTNAME}_scan_run ${HOSTNAME}_scan_results.csv

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