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macOS command-line tools you might not know about

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2039 points Gadiguibou | 3 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.281s | source
1. hk1337 ◴[27 Jun 23 12:36 UTC] No.36491901[source]▶
I was aware of about half of these but textutil, networkUtility, and sips I didn’t not and look really interesting
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2. oneeyedpigeon ◴[27 Jun 23 13:27 UTC] No.36492413[source]▶
Yeah, sips has a lot of potential. The article doesn't mention it, but it can crop as well which could be a real game-changer!
3. jfb ◴[27 Jun 23 17:40 UTC] No.36496208[source]▶
We heavily used `sips` when I was at Apple, because it was quicker than writing code against QuickTime or the other rendering subsystems.