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macOS command-line tools you might not know about

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2039 points Gadiguibou | 1 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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bpye ◴[27 Jun 23 14:48 UTC] No.36493677[source]▶
Caffeinate is definitely the one I miss most on Windows. Super handy to keep your machine awake whilst some task is ongoing.
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perfect-blue ◴[27 Jun 23 15:05 UTC] No.36493929[source]▶
I’ve been looking for a better way to do this than just setting my PC to never sleep. Thanks for this. Now I need to find a Mac alternative as well.
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philbarr ◴[27 Jun 23 15:16 UTC] No.36494091[source]▶
caffeinate is on Mac.

  caffeinate -d -i -u -s
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1. perfect-blue ◴[27 Jun 23 15:24 UTC] No.36494227[source]▶
Thanks very much for this.