Perhaps wrongly I was working on the assumption that it included commands which would do anything if used in the Terminal. The bottom line is that there is no definitive list of Unix commands on any Unix based operating system. System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app/Contents/MacOS/Screen Sharing
LIST OF MAC TERMINAL COMMANDS FULL
The user can modify the PATH environment variable to include additional directories in PATH so that even more programs and scripts can be considered programs.Īnd if the command is not in PATH, then the user can always just type the full path to the program. The operating system will determine if it is a program or a script and do the right thing. If it finds a match, it creates a subprocess, and tells the operating system to execute that file. If it is not a reserved statement (if/then/else/fi, case/esac, variable=value, etc.), or a build-in command (cd, export, set, print, echo, etc.), then the shell searches a list of directories stored in the PATH environment variable checking to see if the command you typed is the name of a file stored in one of those directories. It looks at the first white space separated thing you type as the command. There are most likely others, but these are the most popular.Īnyway, the shell is what gives the command prompt. Anyway there is also the ksh (Korn) shell, zsh shell, the csh shell, and the tcsh shell. Besides that the Terminal does not do a lot more with respect to Unix commands.īash - Bourne Again Shell named after Steven Bourne, creator of the first popular shell called the Bourne Shell or sh). The Terminal is just a semi-dumb program that passes keyboard input to the Unix shell you are using (there are many Unix shells), and the Terminal displays text the shell, or commands run by the shell send to standard output and standard error. Actually thinking of commands as "Terminal" commands can lead you astray. I am beginning to wonder if there is a definition of OS X 'Terminal Commands'. I have found your posts to be very useful.
LIST OF MAC TERMINAL COMMANDS MANUAL
reference for groff's mdoc implementationĭo others have better ways to view local manual pages with full scroll and hot links?
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format and display the on-line manual pages
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search the whatis database for complete words Ls - opens the manual page for ls in your Terminal - should work with most browsers - perhaps try clicking it!ī - Manual page - pity the hot links don't work in the Terminal although they do with several other applications such as ManOpen - see groff_mdoc for further information. It is possible, although the mass edits are not trivial, to make each item in this list a hot link with one of the following: It is easy to page down (shift page-down several times) to the bottom, select all (cmd A), copy (cmd C) and paste into a fast text editor (I still use BBEdit Light). If you want to use the list it may be best to set the terminal to 999 columns before you start.
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On a basic Leopard installation this produces over 4,000 lines with each line containing one or more manual references. Paste the following and then type return Open Terminal and paste the following and then type return: From time to time new users ask where they can find a list of Terminal commands.Ĭlearly there are many possible replies to this but I like these four:ģ - Use the excellent 'List pages' facility of ManOpen.