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MacFuse/MacFusion/TextWrangler for Mac
MacFuse/MacFusion/TextWrangler for Mac

MacFuse/MacFusion/TextWrangler for Mac

Want your Lonestar files to appear like any other place on your hard drive? You can do this using MacFuse/MacFusion on a Mac.

Want to edit files on TACC without having to use nano? You might want to use TextWrangler, a text editor that can edit files over ssh.

Editing Text Files on TACC: TextWrangler

TextWrangler is a recommended FreeWare text editor for MacOS X. (It even keeps with the theme TACC has going with naming its clusters!) You can use it to directly edit text files on Lonestar with OSXFuse/MacFusion using a nice GUI. It is a much more powerful text editor than TextEdit, and won't trip you up by wrapping lines etc., if you learn to use it.

Even if you cannot install OSXFuse/MacFusion, TextWrangler allows you to edit a remote file via SSH. To do this:

  1. Select *File > Open from FTP/SFTP Server...
  2. Type lonestar.tacc.utexas.edu, your username, and your password into the appropriate boxes.
  3. Check the You need to check the SFTP box.
  4. Click connect.
  5. You will now have a file browser window. You can create new files and edit existing files on lonsetar, but won't be able to drag-and-drop copy files.

Tip: Files beginning in a dot (.) like (.profile_user) are "hidden" and won't show up when you are navigating in Finder (if using OSXFuse/MacFusion). There is a way to turn on showing these files in finder, but it can get annoying because they will show up everywhere. If you use the TextWrangler "open" command to open a file, there is a box that you can check to show these files.

Connecting to TACC Like a Hard Drive: MacFuse/MacFusion

Here are the steps for an installation:

  1. Download and install FUSE for OS X.
    • Check the option to install the "compatibility layer"
  2. Download MacFusion.
    • Move the app that gets downloaded to your Applications folder
  3. Restart your computer.
  4. Open the MacFusion application.
  5. Click the + menu in the window and select SSHFS. Enter your login information for lonestar. Choose connect. The remote file system will appear in Finder (depending on your settings it may be on the desktop or inside the computer shortcut in the side of a Finder window). You can also click on the mounted volume within MacFusion and choose "Reveal" from the gear menu.

Copying Files To and From TACC: SFTP Clients

If you can't get OSXFuse/MacFusion to work, you can still copy files back and forth between your computer and TACC using a secure FTP (SFTP) client. Some examples of free programs for Mac are:

Now let's wrap up this brief linux tutorial.

In order to make navigating to the different file systems on lonestar easier ($SCRATCH and $WORK), you can set up some shortcuts with these commands that create folders that "link" to those locations. Run the commands when logged into Lonestar with a terminal, from your home directory.

Code Block
titleCreating a shortcut to the main Lonestar working directories
cdh
ln -s $SCRATCH scratch
ln -s $WORK work
ln -s $BI BioITeam

Copying Files To and From TACC: SFTP Clients

If you can't get OSXFuse/MacFusion to work, you can still copy files back and forth between your computer and TACC using a secure FTP (SFTP) client. Some examples of free programs for Mac are:

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