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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: 0.001s | 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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nine_k ◴[27 Jun 23 14:16 UTC] No.36493127[source]▶
Those are so useful that I wrote trivial shell functions that do the same under Linux.
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timf ◴[27 Jun 23 14:21 UTC] No.36493204[source]▶
Since I'm bouncing between OSX and Linux a lot, I have a shell script with the same name on each that boils down to:

  if [ `uname` == "Darwin" ]; then
    pbcopy
  else
    xsel --clipboard
  fi
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cerved ◴[27 Jun 23 15:26 UTC] No.36494251[source]▶
why not just alias?
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1. timf ◴[28 Jun 23 00:00 UTC] No.36500438[source]▶
Could be an alias, I have a limited set of aliases for each type of system. But I keep a repository of hundreds of personal shell scripts and it fit better there.