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OSXFAQ Mac OS X UNIX Tip-of-the-Day

Week 104 - Unix Commands Reference IV (11 April 2005)

by Adrian Mayo - Editor, OSXFAQ

Thursday - OSX Special - Utility Commands

open ... open a file as if double-clicked
(See tips week 67)

screencapture ... screen and window capture
(See example usage in Friday's tip)

These commands are for maintaining and checking Mac OS X preference files (those that end in .plist in preferences folders).

defaults ... read and write .plist files
plutil ... .plist utilities
(See tips weeks 88 and 100)

Miscellaneous commands.

say ... text to speach converter

sips ... scriptable image processing system

appleping ... pings and appletalk network

certtool ... manage TLS/SSL certificates and keychain access
(See 'man openssl')

opendiff ... opens two files and compare

lsbom ... interprets contents of binary bom files
See 'man 5 bom'

otool ... examine object files (=Unix ldd)

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