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Personally I found it interesting that:

* TFTP server [1]

* PF Firewall [2]

* pbcopy & pbpaste [3]

are built-in in MacOS.

Here[4] is list of MacOS command line man pages, some interesting tools can be found there.

[1] https://rick.cogley.info/post/run-a-tftp-server-on-mac-osx/

[2] https://iyanmv.medium.com/setting-up-correctly-packet-filter...

[3] https://osxdaily.com/2007/03/05/manipulating-the-clipboard-f...

[4] https://ss64.com/osx/

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If you like those, see also, off the top of my head and in no particular order: system_profiler, ioreg[1], networksetup, afconvert, sips, osascript, lsregister[2], apfs.util[3], and, from Xcode, GetFileInfo and SetFile.

All have man pages except lsregister; lsregister with no arguments shows help (for context, lsregister is useful when file icons / associations get messed up).

[1] A GUI version is also available as IORegistryExplorer.app in the Xcode "Additional Tools" packages available from

https://developer.apple.com/download/all/

(registration required)

[2] /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister

[3] /System/Library/Filesystems/apfs.fs/Contents/Resources/apfs.util

Pbcopy/pbpaste are huge productivity boosters for me

I have a shell alias so I can just type pb to do pbpaste|pbcopy - easiest way I’ve found to strip formatting and get plain text.

It's a little awkward, but Cmd-Opt-Shift-V is "Paste and Match Style" aka "paste as plain text".

Pro-tip (at least for me): control (^) doesn't change this, so you can just hold all the modifier keys rather than trying to remember which 3 let you paste as plain text.

Pb stands for pasteboard and not for lead. :D

http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Docs/NeXTStep/3.3/nd/...

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