Mac

Open search

Space and Button left from space (Command ⌘)

Search in Terminal (like locate under unix)

mdfind

Switch Option and Meta Key in Terminal

Option (⌥) + Command (⌘) + O

Special Characters (German Keyboard layout)

Pipe (|)

Option (⌥) + 7

Backslash (\)

Option (⌥) + Shift + 7

Tilde (~)

Option (⌥) + n

Curly Brackets ({})

Option (⌥) + 8 for {

Option (⌥) + 9 for }

Special Characters (Remote Windows)

If remote connected to Windows machine (rdp or virtual environment in browser, etc.) there might be different mappings.

Curly Bracket ({})

Option (⌥) + 7 for {

Option (⌥) + 0 for }

Backslash (\)

Option (⌥) + scharfes S

Open/Connect Networkdrive

Open finder → Go to (in upper bar) → Enter Networkdrive Finder öffnen → Gehe zu (in oberer Leiste) → Netzlaufwerk eingeben

View file content in Hex-Format

xxd <file> | less

Boot from another Volume

While booting hold down Command (⌘) or Alt

Boot into Shell

While booting hold down Windows + S

Boot into Recovery

While booting hold down Windows + R

ProTools

Audio läuft nicht in Mischrechner…

ProTools → Engine → Sound/Mix-Engine

Outlook

Mark selected messages as read Command (⌘) and T

Terminal

To make the terminal more user friendly edit ~/.bash_profile

export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=GxFxCxDxBxegedabagaced

alias ll='ls --color=auto -alF'

After saving this, ever newly opened terminal will take those settings into account.