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!
Read the Manual
Weekly explorations of the man pages for various command line tools.
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2024
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Nov
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21
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Read the Manual: id
When you need to know a bit more about how the system identifies a given user.
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14
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Read the Manual: lsof
Like
ls, but it’s about open files instead of files in a directory. Neat!
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07
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Read the Manual: pbcopy and pbpaste
Two of my favorite command line tools: copy and paste to the macOS clipboard. (Actually to one of… several clipboards?)
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Oct
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31
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Read the Manual: uptime
It tells you how long your computer has been running. Handy, occasionally!
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24
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Read the Manual: rm
Another old Unix standby… without too many extra flags.
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17
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Read the Manual: du
Disk utility. Not that Mac app you might be thinking of, the older one.
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11
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Read the Manual: cd
One of the few Unix tools that actually follows the Unix philosophy! Mostly, anyway.
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03
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Read the Manual: last
A tiny tool I used for the first time in late September, 2024.
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Sep
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26
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Read the Manual: less
Sorry, “opposite of more” doesn’t tell me much.
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19
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Read the Manual: open
open files and directories on macOS!
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