Revitalize, Restore, and Renew Your Mac
Posted 03/15/2007 at 7:50pm
| by Niko Coucouvanis

1. Browse commands by Title, Description, or the full Command Line command.
2. Double-click a command in the list to open it in the Command Sheet.
3. To create your own .clix file, select File > New and import your tweaked commands by dragging them in from theiroriginal command files.
4. Double-click a command file (anything with a .clix extension) in the Etc folder within the CLIX application folder to load a category of commands.
5. Editable fields let you file the command where you want and adjust the description.
6. Make any tweaks to the command here.
7. Click Run to execute the command.
8. If you tweak a command, you can save the changes (verify by clicking Run first, lest you save a mal-tweaked command).
STREAMLINE YOUR SYSTEM
These handy utilities help you keep your system running smoothly. Of course, “handy” is relative. Why not have a little fun with Unix while you’re at it?
System-tweaking utilities like TinkerTool (free, www.bresink.com) and OnyX (donationware, www.titanium.free.fr) put a friendly GUI on powerful Unix commands that you could fire off yourself if you knew them. But you’ll never learn anything that way. Try Rixstep’s CLIX (free, www.rixstep.com/clix), short for Command Line Interface for Mac OS X. It’s just the right mix of power, ease of use, and helpful education.
CLIX bridges the gap between regular folks and Unix’s manual files, which lack any syntax help for assembling a command. For example, FTP-ing a file from your Desktop to a server requires a specific arrangement of the file’s location, the server’s address, your login info, and the file’s destination.
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