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[Editor's note: This FAQ, which was helpful to others decades later
for fixing up vintage Macs, was lost when the home page of the dude
who wrote it went away. There's an unreadable copy on the Internet
Archive, which I have rendered readable here.]

Drive Setup Patch Guide
-----------------------
v1.08 [02/2000]
The purpose of this guide is to explain how Apple's Drive Setup can be
used to format non-Apple hard disks. It is organized in a step by step

majick

#!/bin/sh
#

nohup [DO_WHATEVER_YOU_WANT_HERE]  2> /dev/null > /dev/null &

# The magic incantation to:
# a. Make Terminal willing to close windows
# b. Quit the terminal after this .command file runs
# c. Get rid of Terminal from the Recent Apps list (because nobody runs Terminal)
#

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#!/bin/sh
# Yes, POSIX shell. Because I said so.
#
# Example: run Wing Commander 1 launcher

COMMAND="LAUNCHER.BAT"

MYDIR=$(dirname -- $0)
nohup /Applications/DOSBox\ Staging.app/Contents/MacOS/dosbox  -exit ${MYDIR}/${COMMAND} 2> /dev/null > /dev/null &

majick

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

    `basename "$0"` my-script.sh

majick

#!/bin/bash
# safely and noiselessly uninstall macos packages

#
# to see packages installed:
# pkgutil --pkgs

rmdir-if-exist() {
    # ghetto only first parameter
    [[ -d "$1" ]] && sudo rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty "$1"