norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2009/01/07/handyUtilitieshttp://norman.walsh.name/2009/01/07/handyUtilities/comments.atom2012-02-13T08:10:51.607985ZComment 1 on /2009/01/07/handyUtilitieshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00012009-01-08T05:49:46Z2009-01-08T05:49:46ZCameron McCormackda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

You can pass -H to grep to force it to prepend matching lines with the filename, instead of giving it a dummy /dev/null second file to search.

But yes, that's a common enough task that I have a tiny shell script called 'g' that removes CVS/*, .svn/* and .hg/* files from the results, too.

Comment 2 on /2009/01/07/handyUtilitieshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00022009-01-08T07:07:29Z2009-01-08T07:07:29ZMartin Probstda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

A free alternative to ExpanDrive is MacFuse. It's a port of the FUSE filesystems in userspace and supports ssh, ntfs, and several other neat tricks.

Comment 3 on /2009/01/07/handyUtilitieshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00032009-01-08T12:25:55Z2009-01-08T12:25:55ZNoah Slaterda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Norm, have you checked out sshfs? (GNU/Linux and OS X)

http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

You can even put it into /etc/fstab!

Comment 4 on /2009/01/07/handyUtilitieshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00042009-01-08T12:56:36Z2009-01-08T12:56:36ZEd Daviesda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

A not-Mac-specific alternative to ExpanDrive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS

Not tried it yet but keeping it mind in case of circumstances where it would be useful.

Just installed ack-grep on Ubuntu. Looks very handy, thanks for the tip.

Comment 5 on /2009/01/07/handyUtilitieshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00052009-01-08T15:46:47Z2009-01-08T15:46:47ZRob Kobergda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

re: HTTP Scoop -- as a free alternative in FireFox, you could use FireBug and its Net tab.

Comment 6 on /2009/01/07/handyUtilitieshttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00062009-01-08T18:43:03Z2009-01-08T18:43:03ZNorman Walshda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Yes, FireBug is great for transactions in the browser, which is the example I mentioned. I've actually been working with non-browser AtomPub tools, too. That's why a tool that works at the OS level is so useful.