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dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active April 28, 2025 00:02
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

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stantonk / hg_batch_pull.sh
Created March 7, 2012 17:05
Perform batch "pull -u" on multiple Mercurial repositories from the parent directory
#!/bin/bash
# This script finds all the mercurial repositories in the current directory
# and does a "hg pull -u" to get the latest changes from all the repositories.
#
# Make sure you know what you're doing before running this ;-)
confirm_prompt() {
read -p "Are you sure you want to 'hg pull -u' every repository? " -n 1
echo