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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: 0.224s | source
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klausa ◴[27 Jun 23 12:42 UTC] No.36491947[source]▶
`pbcopy` and `pbpaste` are one of my most-loved in the list.

Dealing with some minified json, switching to iTerm, doing `pbpaste | json_pp | pbcopy` and having a clean output is _so_ nice.

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kps ◴[27 Jun 23 12:49 UTC] No.36492015[source]▶
On Linux I have these wrap xsel or xclip, and likewise open to xdg-open.

Now, for your Mac example — if that's a specific pipeline you often use, you can write a Service menu entry to do it in place, without switching to a terminal.

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1. andelink ◴[27 Jun 23 17:28 UTC] No.36496059[source]▶
+1 to the service menu actions. They are so handy, but often forgotten/overlooked. I think maybe a discoverability issue.