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That's perfect. Thank you.
edit: How do you link it using the file command?
Open the geektool screen thing from system preferences, create a new entry and then choose "File" from the drop down menu (the options are Shell, File and Picture). You can then use browse to find and choose a text file to display on the desktop. (Make sure the file is in plain text). You can then edit the font, colours etc the normal way. This can also be used to display various system logs etc.
Hope this helps
Ok, this is my first attempt here. Hopefully I can come up with something more creative in the future.
Script to check for last Timemachine backup
A buddy asked for a quick timemachine script and I thought it'd be handy for the geektools crowd. Here you go.
save it as timemachine.rb, +x permissions, then configure in geektools as necessary. Can probably get it down to hours if you need it that badly.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'date'
date =`head /var/db/.TimeMachine.Results.plist | grep date| awk -F'<|>|T|:|Z' {'print $3'}`.chomp.split("-")
gap = (Date.new(Time.now.year,Time.now.month,Time.now.day) - Date.new(date[0].to_i,date[1].to_i,date[2].to_i) )
if gap > 14
puts "you gotta backup. its been #{gap.to_i} days"
else
puts "na, you're cool. its only been #{gap.to_i} days"
end
A buddy asked for a quick timemachine script and I thought it'd be handy for the geektools crowd. Here you go.
save it as timemachine.rb, +x permissions, then configure in geektools as necessary. Can probably get it down to hours if you need it that badly.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'date'
date =`head /var/db/.TimeMachine.Results.plist | grep date| awk -F'<|>|T|:|Z' {'print $3'}`.chomp.split("-")
gap = (Date.new(Time.now.year,Time.now.month,Time.now.day) - Date.new(date[0].to_i,date[1].to_i,date[2].to_i) )
if gap > 14
puts "you gotta backup. its been #{gap.to_i} days"
else
puts "na, you're cool. its only been #{gap.to_i} days"
end
Wow, thanks! This is a badass script. Can you make it show hours and days? IE: It has been 4 days and 3 hours since last?
Done
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# require 'date'
public
def to_seconds; self; end
def to_minutes; self/60.0; end
def to_hours; self/(60*60.0); end
def to_days; self/(60*60*24.0); end
def to_weeks; self/(60*60*24*7.0); end
def days; self * 60 * 60 * 24.0; end
date =`head /var/db/.TimeMachine.Results.plist | grep date| awk -F'<|>|T|:|Z' {'print $3 "-" $4'}`.chomp.split("-")
gap = (Time.local(Time.now.year,Time.now.month,Time.now.day,Time.now.hour) - Time.local(date[0].to_i,date[1].to_i,date[2].to_i,date[3].to_i) )
days = gap.to_days.to_i
hours = (gap - days.days).to_hours
if days > 14
puts "you gotta backup. its been #{days} days and #{hours} hours"
else
puts "na, you're cool. its only been #{days} days and #{hours} hours"
end
You should be able to drag the Geektool box scripts to anywhere on either monitor just like a regular document or application.
Here's what I came up with..
Just screwing around and following the VERY helpful tips and instructions on here and some reverse engineering.
I'd like to find a way to do forecasted weather conditions (Temperature and conditions or later today and tomorrow) - I'm using the m.wund.com method for the weather (I don't have Lynx installed) - If anyone has a script to help with that, I'd love to use it!
Just screwing around and following the VERY helpful tips and instructions on here and some reverse engineering.
I'd like to find a way to do forecasted weather conditions (Temperature and conditions or later today and tomorrow) - I'm using the m.wund.com method for the weather (I don't have Lynx installed) - If anyone has a script to help with that, I'd love to use it!
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It might take a while to set some up, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
Also, Geektool only runs on Macs so.... redundant
Also, no. It doesn't affect sleep.
This is mine
With the macrumors shell, is there a way for me to have a lot more control over the text, in that I wish to set line breaks, remove the two lines before the news stories appear etc?
I'm using this shell: curl https://www.macrumors.com/macrumors.xml | sed -e '/title/b' -e '/description/{n;p;}' -e d | sed -e 's/"/"/g' | sed -e 's/<br \/>//g' | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba'
Off topic, does anyone know why tWhirl persists in not showing the icon I changed it to?
With the macrumors shell, is there a way for me to have a lot more control over the text, in that I wish to set line breaks, remove the two lines before the news stories appear etc?
I'm using this shell: curl https://www.macrumors.com/macrumors.xml | sed -e '/title/b' -e '/description/{n;p;}' -e d | sed -e 's/"/"/g' | sed -e 's/<br \/>//g' | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba'
Off topic, does anyone know why tWhirl persists in not showing the icon I changed it to?
This is mine
With the macrumors shell, is there a way for me to have a lot more control over the text, in that I wish to set line breaks, remove the two lines before the news stories appear etc?
I'm using this shell: curl https://www.macrumors.com/macrumors.xml | sed -e '/title/b' -e '/description/{n;p;}' -e d | sed -e 's/"/"/g' | sed -e 's/<br \/>//g' | sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba'
Off topic, does anyone know why tWhirl persists in not showing the icon I changed it to?
I have yet to find a working iTunes script what is that one your using?
I'm using Bowtie, and the skin for it is called Subtile, found here http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16790940&p=10
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