macOS command-line tools you might not know about
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#2`tmutil` could be added to this list, it's a management cli for Time Machine
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#3Neat, I was not aware of `networkQuality`. A good replacement for opening up Speedtest or whatnot when you just want to figure out if the network is slow or something else is up.
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#4`mdfind` and `networkQuality` seem very useful!
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#5I was aware of about half of these but textutil, networkUtility, and sips I didn’t not and look really interesting
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#6Wut? No fs_usage? Easily one of the most useful of them all ..
https://www.manpagez.com/man/1/fs_usage/
I can't count the number of times a bit of fs_usage foo has helped me dig out of a seriously messy pile of network, file and page fault issues ..
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#7Xcode uses `mdfind` to provide symbols in crash reports and for Instruments, and is the reason why it seems to have a life of its own and work only when it wants to. Spotlight indexing is extremely flaky for reasons I'm not aware of.
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#8`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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#9qlmanage is super useful for converting SVG to PNG easily, too! I use it like this:
qlmanage -t -s 1000x1000 -o ~/Pictures/foo.png ~/Pictures/foo.svg
To turn an square SVG into a PNG without installing anything extra or using an online image tool
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#10Is ```textutil -convert``` using pandoc under the hood?