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

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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

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

[1]https://ss64.com/pass/passwords.zip

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.

thanks, updated:

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.

will add - thank you

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

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.

added

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.

added. thanks!

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.

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

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.

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