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Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities

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700 points yen223 | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 05:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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zitterbewegung ◴[06 Nov 24 13:19 UTC] No.42061843[source]▶
The terminal version of Disk Utility is actually much better than the GUI (it doesn't hang and the app is glitchy.

Docs are at https://ss64.com/mac/diskutil.html

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zazaulola ◴[06 Nov 24 14:47 UTC] No.42063091[source]▶
`pdisk` might be more convenient if you've worked with `gdisk` on ArchLinux

https://manpagez.com/man/8/pdisk/

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1. e40 ◴[06 Nov 24 14:59 UTC] No.42063313[source]▶
diskutil does more than edit partitions, though.