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Resize Image

# Resize to max width/height 640
sips -Z 640 *.jpg

Convert Image Format

# Convert png to jpg
sips -s format jpeg *.png --out mydirectory

sips is a CLI tool included in Mac, but the commands is not pretty. If you can install other tools, magick mogrify does resizing, converting formats, and more.

magick mogrify -resize 800x800 *.jpg
magick mogrify -format jpg *.png

List Process Running on a Port

# eg. Port 8080
lsof -i :8080

Kill Process running on a Port

lsof -P | grep ':8080' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9

Creating Markdown Journal

Uses journal:

journal new -d /path/to/journal "My entry for today"

Extract MP3 from Youtube

Uses yt-dlp:

yt-dlp -f mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu-5mvCNKbQ

# Other handy yt-dlp
# Download in mp4 video format
yt-dlp -f mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu-5mvCNKbQ

UPDATE: As youtube-dl is no longer updated since 2021, the replacement is yt-dlp, which works exactly the same, and even faster! All youtube-dl were replaced with yt-dlp in this post.

Download Youtube Live Stream

For live streams, youtube-dl does not work well. We need another tool to the rescue - livestreamer streamlink

streamlink --hls-live-restart -o Live.ts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkrq7Kpd1so best

Rip DVD

Uses HandBrake-CLI:

./HandBrakeCLI -i /Volumes/THE_DVD/VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB -o ~/Movies/rip.mp4 –preset="Normal" -c 1-3

The c option is for specific chapter. Omit for all.

If you need to rip protected DVD, then brew install libdvdcss first.

Download a file with curl

curl -o myfile.mp3 https://the.domain.com/file

# To resume, if download was interrupted
curl -o myfile.mp3 -C - https://the.domain.com/file

Rename multiple files in a directory

# Add a prefix "XXX_" to every file
for f in * ; do mv "$f" "XXX_$f" ; done

Search/grep

# Find recursively in the directory for the string 'needle'
grep -R 'needle' path/to/dir/

Find files

# Find mp4 files between 100-200 MB
find . -type f -name *.mp4 -size +100M -size -200M

You could execute other commands such as removing it

find ... -exec rm -f {} \;

Sleep and Timeout

# Start running a command (eg streamlink) after 60 seconds
sleep 60 && streamlink ...

# Run long running command (eg streamlink) and terminate after 60 seconds
gtimeout 60 streamlink ...

On macOS, you need to brew install coreutils to use gtimeout.

Rsync

I usually backup my external drive data to ANOTHER external drive, just keeping as a fallback if the drive fail. To sync them, I use rsync. Mac ships with a rather outdated version, so install with brew install rsync first.

rsync -axHAWXS --numeric-ids --info=progress2 /drive/primary/ /drive/backup/

The above will sync from everything from “primary” folder to “backup” folder.

For local copy, I would also use rsync (rather than cp) like this:

rsync -axvhWX --no-compress /src /des

Resize a video

I shoot too much video with my GoPro, yet I want to keep all of them without spending $ buying hard drives. To compromise, I downsize some of the raw footage. Install ffmpeg with brew install ffmpeg first.

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -s 960x540 -preset slow -crf 28 -c:a copy output-reduced.mp4

Extract mp3 from a video

ffmpeg -i input.mov -q:a 0 -map a output.mp3

Inject 360 meta into photo/video

 exiftool -ProjectionType="equirectangular" my-360-photo.jpeg

For video, there is spatial-media, a python tool by Google.

 python spatialmedia -i input.mov output.mov

Make sure image no alpha channel

mogrify -alpha off */*.png

Especially useful for app store screenshot uploading, which cannot accept alpha/transparency. You can also test if an image has alpha with sips -g all *.png.

Change ‘Date Created’

SetFile -d '12/31/2020 23:59:59' *.jpg

Change ‘Date Modified’ only

touch -mt 202012312359 *.jpg

Download private Facebook video

Non-public videos require your Facebook account has access to it. First you have to retrieve your Facebook account’s cookie. To do so, open your browser web inspector > Network > Refresh the page > Copy Request’s Cookie. Eg. Cookie: dpr123... (truncated)

Use yt-dlp and pass in the cookie header.

yt-dlp https://www.facebook.com/12345/videos/67890 --add-header 'Cookie: dpr123...'

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