Disable Sleep on a Mac from the Command Line with caffeinate

OS X Daily
By William PearsonAug 3, 2012, 9:24 am2.4k ptsInteresting
You’ve always been able to temporarily prevent a Mac from sleeping by using the pmset noidle command or a hot corner, but with OS X Mountain Lion, Apple has bundled a command line tool dedicated to sleep prevention much like the popular Caffeine app, and appropriately, named it caffeinate. At it’s most simple…

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