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I find it strange that you think the CLI is clunky on Linux. Up until recently Mac shipped with an 3.x version of Bash. To star it had a version of sed that w
by base698 10y ago
I find it strange that you think the CLI is clunky on Linux.
Up until recently Mac shipped with an 3.x version of Bash. To star it had a version of sed that was in effect broken in several use cases. Mac also lacks the system profile capabilities of Linux such as perf and the new BPF tools.
Most of the tools like top, netstat, strace, and vmstat aren't as up to date on Mac either.
- matwood 10y agoShips with sure, but iTerm2 and brew install bash/vim/etc... fix those issues.
- marios 10y agoMac doesn't have perf, but it has DTrace. They added it in OS X 10.5 which was released 9 years ago. Regarding the other tools you mention, keep in mind they are system tools. You cannot simply take the source of Linux netstat, compile it on your mac and call it a day. The data displayed by these tools is obtained from the kernel and different kernels have different interfaces (for instance, OpenBSD doesn't have /proc which is where Linux netstat gets information).
- base698 10y agoDtrace is nice but everything seems trending away from it. I know you can't just compile and call it a day... Kind of what I was getting at :)