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		conradev on May 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OS X Command Line Utilities The one utility I can't live without is caffeinate, which prevents a Mac from sleeping. It's super useful for keeping long running tasks running.

veidr on May 15, 2014 [–]

Why not just disable sleep? I only ever sleep my Macs manually (if ever).

gotofritz on May 15, 2014 | [–]

it's useful to be able to switch between the two without having to open up the preferences

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