Weekly explorations of the man pages for various command line tools.
Assumed audience: People interested in learning how the command lines tools on their computer work.
Every Thursday (give or take!) I post a quick survey of interesting highlights from the manual page for a command line terminal. Hopefully this will help you build your toolbox!
When you need to know a bit more about how the system identifies a given user.
Like ls, but it’s about open files instead of files in a directory. Neat!
Two of my favorite command line tools: copy and paste to the macOS clipboard. (Actually to one of… several clipboards?)
It tells you how long your computer has been running. Handy, occasionally!
Another old Unix standby… without too many extra flags.
Disk utility. Not that Mac app you might be thinking of, the older one.
One of the few Unix tools that actually follows the Unix philosophy! Mostly, anyway.
A tiny tool I used for the first time in late September, 2024.
Sorry, “opposite of more” doesn’t tell me much.
open files and directories on macOS!