topic: command line tools
Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.
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2020
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May
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03
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find, grep, xargs, and newlines and null—JOURNAL
Turns out
tris your friend for this kind of thing.
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04
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Follow-Up on Command-Line Finding and Filtering—JOURNAL
A simpler solution that doesn’t require
tr… if you have GNU utils or other alternatives.
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2024
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Sep
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19
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Read the Manual: open —JOURNAL
open files and directories on macOS!
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26
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Read the Manual: less —JOURNAL
Sorry, “opposite of more” doesn’t tell me much.
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Oct
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03
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Read the Manual: last —JOURNAL
A tiny tool I used for the first time in late September, 2024.
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11
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Read the Manual: cd—JOURNAL
One of the few Unix tools that actually follows the Unix philosophy! Mostly, anyway.
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17
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Read the Manual: du—JOURNAL
Disk utility. Not that Mac app you might be thinking of, the older one.
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24
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Read the Manual: rm—JOURNAL
Another old Unix standby… without too many extra flags.
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31
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Read the Manual: uptime—JOURNAL
It tells you how long your computer has been running. Handy, occasionally!
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Nov
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07
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Read the Manual: pbcopy and pbpaste—JOURNAL
Two of my favorite command line tools: copy and paste to the macOS clipboard. (Actually to one of… several clipboards?)
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14
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Read the Manual: lsof—JOURNAL
Like
ls, but it’s about open files instead of files in a directory. Neat!
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21
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Read the Manual: id—JOURNAL
When you need to know a bit more about how the system identifies a given user.
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Dec
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02
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11
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Shellcheck—NOTES
Your best friend if you have to write shell scripts.
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20
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fish shell v4 beta 1—NOTES
A bunch of small nice improvements… and a rewrite in Rust!
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2025
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Jan
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22
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jj tip: describe multiple revisions at once—NOTES
Revsets and filesets remain mind-blowing.
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That’s it for this topic… but there are many, many more!