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Restart your Mac.\n2. Before OS X starts up, hold down `Command-R` and keep it held down until you see an Apple icon and a progress bar. Release. This boots you into Recovery.\n3. From the Utilities menu, select Terminal.\n4. At the prompt type exactly the following and then press Return: `csrutil disable`.\n5. Terminal should display a message that SIP was disabled.\n6. From the  menu, select Restart.\n\nYou can re-enable **System Integrity Protection** by folowing the above steps, but using `csrutil enable` instead.\t\t\n\n\n---\n### Scan your local wireless environment from the command line.\n\nNote that if you're running **El Capitan** you'll have to disable **System Integrity Protection** to make the symlink to `/usr/sbin`.\n\n```bash\n$ sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport\n$ aiport -s\n```\nFor convenience, you can add an alias to your `.bash_profile` or `.zshrc` like the following.\n\n```bash\nalias wifiscan='airport -s'\n```\n\n---\n### Increase Window resize speed for Cocoa apps.\n```bash\ndefaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime -float 0.001 \t\n```\n\n---\n### Disable Warning when changing file extension.\n```bash\ndefaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableExtensionChangeWarning -bool false\n```\n\n---\n### Show hidden `~/Library` folder.\n```bash\nchflags nohidden ~/Library\n```\n\n---\n### Allow quitting Finder via ⌘ + Q; doing so will also hide desktop icons.\n```bash\ndefaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true\n```\n\n---\n### Speed up Mission Control animations.\n```bash\ndefaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.1\n```\n\n---\n### Disable Dashboard.\n```bash\ndefaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -bool true\n```\n---\n### Don’t display the annoying prompt when quitting iTerm.\n\n```bash\ndefaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 PromptOnQuit -bool false\n```\n\n---\n### Disable the sound effects on boot.\n```bash\nsudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=\" \"\n```\n\n---\n### Check for software updates daily, not just once per week.\n```bash\ndefaults write com.apple.SoftwareUpdate ScheduleFrequency -int 1\n```\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ffrancomile%2Fmac-terminal-toollkit","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Ffrancomile%2Fmac-terminal-toollkit","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ffrancomile%2Fmac-terminal-toollkit/lists"}