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How-To Geek Forums Topic: Mac - Terminal(CMD) Commands http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Mac - Terminal(CMD) Commands en Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:54:44 +0000 michael on "Mac - Terminal(CMD) Commands" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/mac-terminalcmd-commands#post-2389 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:26:35 +0000 michael 2389@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ Thank you Zig. This will be helpful for people who like to use the command prompt in Mac. Zig on "Mac - Terminal(CMD) Commands" http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/mac-terminalcmd-commands#post-367 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:03:27 +0000 Zig 367@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ alias - Create an alias alloc - List used and free memory awk - Find and Replace text within file(s) basename - Convert a full pathname to just a folder path bash - Bourne-Again SHell (Linux) bless - Set volume bootability and startup disk options. break - Exit from a loop cal - Display a calendar case - Conditionally perform a command cat - Display the contents of a file cd - Change Directory chflags - Change a file or folder's flags. chgrp - Change group ownership chmod - Change access permissions chown - Change file owner and group chroot - Run a command with a different root directory cksum - Print CRC checksum and byte counts clear - Clear terminal screen cmp - Compare two files comm - Compare two sorted files line by line complete - Edit a command completion [word/pattern/list] continue - Resume the next iteration of a loop cp - Copy one or more files to another location cron - Daemon to execute scheduled commands crontab - Schedule a command to run at a later date/time cut - Divide a file into several parts date - Display or change the date & time dc - Desk Calculator dd - Data Dump - Convert and copy a file df - Display free disk space diff - Display the differences between two files diff3 - Show differences among three files dirname Convert a full pathname to just a path dirs Di - play list of remembered directories diskutil - Disk utilities - Format, Verify, Repair ditto - Copy files and folders dscl - Directory Service command line utility du - Estimate file space usage echo - Display message on screen ed - A line-oriented text editor (edlin) enable - Stop or start printers and classes. env - Set environment and run a utility eval - Evaluate several commands/arguments exec - Execute a command exit - Exit the shell expect - Programmed dialogue with interactive programs expand - Convert tabs to spaces expr - Evaluate expressions false - Do nothing, unsuccessfully fdisk - Partition table manipulator for Darwin UFS/HFS/DOS find - Search for files that meet a desired criteria fmt - Reformat paragraph text fold - Wrap text to fit a specified width for - Expand words, and execute commands foreach - Loop, expand words, and execute commands fsck - Filesystem consistency check and repair fs - usage Filesystem usage (process/pathname) ftp - Internet file transfer program GetFileInfo - Get attributes of HFS+ files getopt - Parse positional parameters goto - Jump to label and continue execution grep - Search file(s) for lines that match a given pattern groups - Print group names a user is in gzip - Compress or decompress files head - Display the first lines of a file hdiutil - Manipulate iso disk images history - Command History hostname - Print or set system name id - Print user and group names/id's if - Conditionally perform a command info - Help info install - Copy files and set attributes jobs - List active jobs join - Join lines on a common field kill - Stop a process from running l - List files in long format (ls -l) ll - List files in long format, showing invisible files (ls -la) less - Display output one screen at a time ln - Make links between files (hard links, symbolic links) locate - Find files logname - Print current login name login - log into the computer logout - Exit a login shell (bye) lpr - Print files lprm - Remove jobs from the print queue lpstat - Printer status information ls - List information about file(s) lsbom - List a bill of materials file lsof - List open files man - Help manual mkdir - Create new folder(s) mkfifo - Make FIFOs (named pipes) more - Display output one screen at a time mount - Mount a file system mv - Move or rename files or directories net - Manage network resources nice - Set the priority of a command nohup - Run a command immune to hangups onintr - Control the action of a shell interrupt open - Open a file/folder/URL/Application osascript - Execute AppleScript passwd - Modify a user password paste - Merge lines of files pbcopy - Copy data to the clipboard pbpaste - Paste data from the Clipboard pico - Simple text editor ping - Test a network connection pmset - Power Management settings popd - Restore the previous value of the current directory pr - Convert text files for printing printenv - Print environment variables printf - Format and print data ps - Process status pushd - Save and then change the current directory pwd - Print Working Directory quota - Display disk usage and limits rcp - Copy files between machines. repeat - Execute a command multiple times rm - Remove files rmdir - Remove folder(s) rpm - Remote Package Manager rsync - Remote file copy - Sync file tree (also RsyncX) say - Convert text to audible speech sched - Schedule a command to run at a later time. screencapture - Capture screen image to file or disk sdiff - Merge two files interactively security - Administer Keychains, keys, certificates and the Security framework sed - Stream Editor set - Set a shell variable = value setenv - Set an environment variable = value setfile - Set attributes of HFS+ files shift - Shift positional parameters shutdown - Shutdown or restart OS X sleep - Delay for a specified time softwareupdate - System software update tool sort - Sort text files split - Split a file into fixed-size pieces stop - Stop a job or process su - Substitute user identity sudo - Execute a command as another user sum - Print a checksum for a file switch - Conditionally perform a command tail - Output the last part of files tar - Tape ARchiver tee - Redirect output to multiple files test - Condition evaluation time - Measure Program Resource Use touch - Change file timestamps traceroute - Trace Route to Host tr - Translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters true - Do nothing, successfully tty - Print filename of terminal on stdin type - Describe a command umask - Users file creation mask umount - a device unalias - Remove an alias uname - Print system information unexpand - Convert spaces to tabs uniq - Uniquify files units - Convert units from one scale to another unset - Remove variable or function names unsetenv - Remove environment variable users - Print login names of users currently logged in uuencode - Encode a binary file uudecode - Decode a file created by uuencode vi - Text Editor wc - Print byte, word, and line counts where - Report all known instances of a command which - Locate a program file in the user's path while - Execute commands who - Print all usernames currently logged on whoami - Print the current user id and name (`id -un') xargs - Execute utility - passing arguments yes - Print a string until interrupted