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Is there a place Apple documents these things? Do people find these things with something like “ls /usr/bin” and wondering “what is this?” or does Apple have a
by massysett 3y ago
Is there a place Apple documents these things? Do people find these things with something like “ls /usr/bin” and wondering “what is this?” or does Apple have an administrator’s guide somewhere? Or has someone written a good book with this stuff?
- saurabhsharan 3y agoHi, author here. There isn't any official canonical documentation that I know of, outside of the individual man pages. This was a list of commands I've been maintaining for myself over the years and thought it would be useful to share. If you want more like this, I also have another page full of lesser well-known macOS tips and tricks: https://saurabhs.org/macos-tips https://saurabhs.org/macos-tips
- tlh 3y agoOh my, and a bucket load of iOS tips too! TIL you can tap and drag with 2 fingers to multi-select list items in mail and notes, etc Bless you for finding and collating
- andelink 3y agoI'd love some official Apple documentation. In lieu of that, you can search man pages with `man -f`, `whatis`, or `apropos`. I also keep the following aliases in my ~/.zshrc: alias list-functions='functions -x4' alias list-function-names='functions +' alias list-aliases='alias' alias list-alias-names='alias +' alias list-commands='print -raC2 ${(kv)commands} | sort' alias list-command-names='print -roC1 ${(k)commands}' alias list-builtins='print -raC2 ${(kv)builtins} | sort' alias list-builtin-names='print -roC1 ${(k)builtins}' alias list-everything='whence -cm "[^_]*"' alias list-everything-names='whence -wm "[^_]*"' Edit: another commenter posted what looks to be comprehensive docs/lists here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36492487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36492487