Comments on: Ten OS X Command Line Utilities you might not know about

By: stib

stib — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:46:30 +0000

The people who are carrying on about the gui alternative for screencapture are missing the point somewhat. The strength of command line applications is that they can be easily automated, and chained together to create useful tools. For example if I wanted to take a screenshot every minute for a whole day, it would be trivial to do this on the command line, but I’d love to see you try it with the keyboard shortcuts.
Or even more fun: I can log in to my desktop machine from my phone using a ssh client and have access to all the command line tools, even on a slow 3G connection.
The more I use the command line, the more I feel limited by the GUI.

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By: dogboi

dogboi — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:48:11 +0000

I’d like to recommend htop as a replacement for top. There are a few prebuilt versions, or of course, you can compile it yourself. I also use iterm instead of terminal.app.

By: oteller tatil

oteller tatil — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:27:14 +0000

Nice post…Thanks

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By: Sikis izle

Sikis izle — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:39:45 +0000

This is a good article, but I have to say the GNU comment is pretty out there. Mac OS X is built on various BSDs, notably FreeBSD, which has its own set of command-line tools that have nothing to do with GNU.

Although OS X does use GNU tools (notably the compiler, ‘gcc’), none of the programs in this list are by the GNU foundation except the catch-all final two ‘programs’ which of course let you install your own GNU utilities if you like.

What about the GUI? That’s the evolution of NextStep, a proprietary interface that came out of Steve Jobs’ previous company.

By: macdet

macdet — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:03:22 +0000

You make my day & live better than before. Big hands

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By: Guz

Guz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:52:46 +0000

For the Screen Capture, you can do the thingy with the camera by just pressing CMD+SHITF+4 and then SPACE.

For just a portion of the screen is just CMD+SHIFT+4…

By: Büyü

Büyü — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:09:27 +0000

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By: hom

hom — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:25:06 +0000

for all those plebs that kept banging on about cmd shift 4, it only allows you to save the image as a PNG and not the extension of you choice, cocky little bstrds

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:56:52 +0000

That lsbom one looks handy. There another 40 here: http://www.leftcolumn.net/2009/02/15/40-useful-mac-os-x-shell-scripts-and-terminal-commands/