Hi Dave, I’ve often wondered how to find out about the functionality of all the different command line programs in MacOSX. The best list I’ve come across is:
https://git.herrbischoff.com/awesome-macos-command-line/about/ There is also a interesting Git project that shows the differences in man pages between Big Sur and Monterey, but I’ve never seen anything like that for earlier releases: https://github.com/kaleidoscope-app/man-diff <https://github.com/kaleidoscope-app/man-diff> Best, -ranga > On Nov 17, 2021, at 13:37, Dave Horsfall <d...@horsfall.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Bill Cole wrote: > >>> Where are all these obscure commands documented? >> >> /usr/share/man/man1/ and /usr/share/man/man8/ mostly... > > Perhaps I should've expressed it better :-) > > I've found all sorts of obscure commands (such as "security" and the > aforementioned "mdutil") mentioned on this list; now, how am I supposed to > know that they existed in the first place? I cannot find any sign of an > admin guide, and this 2nd-hand MacPro did not come with media. > > It seems that I have to look at all the manfiles and wonder what they do... > >> FWIW, 'apropos spotlight' will tell you that mdutil and mddiagnose exist. > > Sure, but my query was more of a general nature. > > -- Dave
