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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: 0.204s | source
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RandallBrown ◴[27 Jun 23 17:09 UTC] No.36495805[source]▶
The say command has one of my favorite pieces of that famous Apple polish.

If you type `say os x`, it'll actually speak "oh es ten".

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unsupp0rted ◴[27 Jun 23 17:23 UTC] No.36496000[source]▶
It says "oh es ex" for all variations I've tried
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1. _diyar ◴[27 Jun 23 17:33 UTC] No.36496130[source]▶
Capitalizing the phrase made it work for me

> say OS X

Edit: Late 2016 MBP on 12.6.6 Monterey