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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

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700 points yen223 | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 05:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source
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selectnull ◴[06 Nov 24 08:28 UTC] No.42058087[source]▶
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Very useful.

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weberer ◴[06 Nov 24 11:42 UTC] No.42060502[source]▶
It would be cool to have this activate when a Jupyter notebook is currently running a cell, and deactivate automatically when its finished.
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1. eszed ◴[06 Nov 24 15:55 UTC] No.42064216[source]▶
This can be done by passing a PID. I believe there are other options, as well. (Not at my computer to look it up right now.) I haven't used those features "manually", but I have in scripts that I expect to generate long-running processes.