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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: 0.518s | source
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BossingAround ◴[06 Nov 24 20:26 UTC] No.42068804[source]▶
I'm sure everyone knows this, but `open` has an equivalent on Linux: `xdg-open`.
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1. Affric ◴[06 Nov 24 21:35 UTC] No.42069798[source]▶
Except xdg mime types are easily heist-able by programs and there is no universal truth for it.

Install vscode on Linux and have fun with it hijacking opening directories. Which is easy enough to fix (with a bit of know how) or work around but annoying.

MacOS is far from perfect but open always doing what I expect is a good example of what Apple did well.

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2. yen223 ◴[07 Nov 24 01:25 UTC] No.42072243[source]▶
Xcode opening all my JSON files is equally obnoxious. At least it is relatively easy to sort that out in macOS.