- /usr/bin/say Speak the arguments out loud, e.g. % say hello world
- /sbin/md5 Calculates a message digest checksum for a file, e.g. % md5 foo.gif
- /usr/bin/cpan Grab and install CPAN module. e.g. % sudo -H cpan -i LWP::Protocol
- /usr/bin/xmllint. Test XML file integrity, pretty print and more. e.g. % xmllint –format foo.xml
This one was recently new to me:
% which tidy; man -k tidy
/usr/bin/tidy
tidy(1) - validate, correct, and pretty-print HTML files
I use "osascript" a lot to execute applescript from the commandline:
osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to sleep'
That puts my mac to sleep... useful after a big compile or backup that I'm leaving my laptop to do when I go to sleep, so that my laptop sleeps when it's done.
You really ought to use
tell app "System Events" to sleep
since the Finder command for this is just a legacy one, and has been deprecated.
You really ought to use
tell app "System Events" to sleep
since the Finder command for this is just a legacy one, and has been deprecated.