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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

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700 points yen223 | 2 comments | 06 Nov 24 05:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.608s | source
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pseufaux ◴[06 Nov 24 12:04 UTC] No.42060817[source]▶
I'll add `plutil` to the list. It's great for reading plist files, but did you know it can parse json too?

/usr/bin/plutil -extract your.key.path raw -o - - <<< "$jsoninput"

(obviously, less useful now that `jq`is built in)

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1. jonpalmisc ◴[06 Nov 24 12:53 UTC] No.42061504[source]▶

    ; which jq
    /usr/bin/jq
    ; jq
    jq - commandline JSON processor [version 1.6-159-apple-gcff5336-dirty]
Wow. When did `jq` start shipping by default? TIL
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2. pseufaux ◴[06 Nov 24 17:07 UTC] No.42065436[source]▶
Starting in macOS 15, it was quietly included.

Glad to spread the good word ;)