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Mac Commands – Master your Mac with ease with this command reference

34 points by bilater 3y ago

crims0n 3y ago
Nice reference site. Not to nitpick but it would be cool if search parsed the Description and Usage field as well, for those times where you remember what a command does but not what it is.
- bilater 3y ago
  added. thanks!
latexr 3y ago
The subtitle says it’s the “ultimate command reference” but it’s missing several useful commands such as `networkQuality`, `sips`, and `realpath`. Probably more, but I stopped trying after the first three checks were duds.
- bilater 3y ago
  will add - thank you
ayewo 3y ago
There’s a recent HN thread on a similar topic that was highly upvoted: Advanced macOS Command-Line Tools https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491704
johnvaluk 3y ago
It would be nice to see the MacOS-specific commands in a separate table (or somehow marked as such).
awkward 3y ago
I pipe things into pbcopy and out of pbpaste at least five times a day. I wish linux had a similar way to interact with the clipboard from the terminal in less than 10 characters.
- ithkuil 3y ago
  There are xclip and xsel The most confusing thing to deal with is the distinction between X "selection" and "clipboard". Luckily there are many tools that synchronize clipboard and selection, if you want
macshome 3y ago
This seems to mostly be missing Mac specific commands. Even super basic things like `defaults`, `plutil`, `mdfind`, `diskutil`, and `bless` are missing. I can understand missing some of the more esoteric things like `xart`, but so far it’s mostly a list of common UNIX tools.
- bilater 3y ago
  added
drewmol 3y ago
Cool site. Do you planning to keep adding more commands to the database? Thanks for making it! I’m just posting to make sure everyone is familiar with [0]ss64.com or to introduce you if not. It had more macOS command that this, and each command links to a verbose usage page with details and arguments, man pages and examples. Plus it has CMD,PowerShell,Linux,Multiple Databases,ASCII Table/Generator, VBScript,Base/Hex/Decimal/Binary/ASCII Calc,Bytes-MB-GB…/Bits-MiB-GiB…Calc,an up-to-date Forum and a great single html file Password Generator/Hash-er(Use one Master to derive a list of many Unique passwords) that can be used locally[1]. And global search. It’s really great! ss64.com It’s so good that if you haven’t been before, you really should go there right now! [0]https://:ss64.com https://:ss64.com [1]https://ss64.com/pass/passwords.zip https://ss64.com/pass/passwords.zip
- fragmede 3y ago
  http://ss64.com http://ss64.com the way the comment is (initially) written, it doesn't make a hyperlink for people to click on. if you're trying to drive people to the site, might want to give them that.
  - drewmol 3y ago
    thanks, updated:
fragmede 3y ago
it seems to be missing a PATH or something. eg airport is buried in /System/Library/Private Frameworks... I can't just type in airport and have it run. I'm using bash from brew, in case that makes a difference.

34 points by bilater 3y ago

Nice reference site. Not to nitpick but it would be cool if search parsed the Description and Usage field as well, for those times where you remember what a command does but not what it is.

bilater 3y ago
added. thanks!

latexr 3y ago

The subtitle says it’s the “ultimate command reference” but it’s missing several useful commands such as `networkQuality`, `sips`, and `realpath`. Probably more, but I stopped trying after the first three checks were duds.

bilater 3y ago
will add - thank you

ayewo 3y ago

There’s a recent HN thread on a similar topic that was highly upvoted: Advanced macOS Command-Line Tools https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491704

johnvaluk 3y ago

It would be nice to see the MacOS-specific commands in a separate table (or somehow marked as such).

awkward 3y ago

I pipe things into pbcopy and out of pbpaste at least five times a day. I wish linux had a similar way to interact with the clipboard from the terminal in less than 10 characters.

ithkuil 3y ago
There are xclip and xsel The most confusing thing to deal with is the distinction between X "selection" and "clipboard". Luckily there are many tools that synchronize clipboard and selection, if you want

macshome 3y ago

This seems to mostly be missing Mac specific commands. Even super basic things like `defaults`, `plutil`, `mdfind`, `diskutil`, and `bless` are missing. I can understand missing some of the more esoteric things like `xart`, but so far it’s mostly a list of common UNIX tools.

bilater 3y ago
added

drewmol 3y ago

Cool site. Do you planning to keep adding more commands to the database? Thanks for making it! I’m just posting to make sure everyone is familiar with [0]ss64.com or to introduce you if not. It had more macOS command that this, and each command links to a verbose usage page with details and arguments, man pages and examples. Plus it has CMD,PowerShell,Linux,Multiple Databases,ASCII Table/Generator, VBScript,Base/Hex/Decimal/Binary/ASCII Calc,Bytes-MB-GB…/Bits-MiB-GiB…Calc,an up-to-date Forum and a great single html file Password Generator/Hash-er(Use one Master to derive a list of many Unique passwords) that can be used locally[1]. And global search. It’s really great! ss64.com It’s so good that if you haven’t been before, you really should go there right now! [0]https://:ss64.com https://:ss64.com [1]https://ss64.com/pass/passwords.zip https://ss64.com/pass/passwords.zip

fragmede 3y ago
http://ss64.com http://ss64.com the way the comment is (initially) written, it doesn't make a hyperlink for people to click on. if you're trying to drive people to the site, might want to give them that.
- drewmol 3y ago
  thanks, updated:

fragmede 3y ago

it seems to be missing a PATH or something. eg airport is buried in /System/Library/Private Frameworks... I can't just type in airport and have it run. I'm using bash from brew, in case that makes a difference.