08/08/10 18:06:44 ¶ ●

Terminal Tips and Tricks for Mac OS X

Some really awesome neat Terminal commands.

For instance opensnoop:

sudo opensnoop
sudo opensnoop -p PID
sudo opensnoop -f /etc/passwd

or the commands to interact with the OS X clipboard pbcopy and pbpaste:

grep 'search term' largeFile.txt | pbcopy
pbpaste | sed 's/ /%20/g'

And I really like these:

• Open a man page in Preview:
  pman () {
  

    man -t "${1}" | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app
  

  }
  
• Open a man page in TextMate:
  tman () {
  

    MANWIDTH=160 MANPAGER='col -bx' man $@ | mate
  

  }

Great for any .profile or .bash_profile.

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