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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: 0s | source
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ExoticPearTree ◴[27 Jun 23 12:52 UTC] No.36492041[source]▶
pbcopy/pbpaste are a lifesaver when doing stuff on the command line that has a lot of output and piping is not something you can do.

networkQuality is something I really wish I knew about sooner.

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hereonout2 ◴[27 Jun 23 13:00 UTC] No.36492117[source]▶
Also for things like sharing public ssh keys. Instead of "can you send me your public key" and getting something with random line breaks depending on the users text editor I just have to ask them to "cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy".

I also alias pbcopy / pbpaste on Linux too, so useful!

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1. jcotton42 ◴[27 Jun 23 19:06 UTC] No.36497313[source]▶
Fwiw, `clip` on Windows does the same as `pbcopy` (there's no analog to pbpaste built in though)