On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, David Hand wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:44:56PM -0600, Jonathan King wrote: > >
[snip] > > automake > > c_rehash > > gatherheaderdoc > > grep_changelog > > > > But my "favorite" undocumented program in the system is > > /usr/sbin/softwareupdate. Uniquely powerful, no man page, no source > > I can find, and a couple of things that look a bit weird in the > > output when I run "strings" on it. As an aside, it turns out that softwareupdate *does* have a man page in section 8, but something is messed up with my current set-up on the powermac at work so that I can't see it (a quick google suggests that I'm not the only one with this problem). So take the other "missing man page" reports I made with a grain of salt. > More fun undocumented programs: > > pbcopy copies standard input to the UI's copy buffer > pbpaste pastes to standard output Wow. Those are pretty cool, and "pbpaste -help" gives the tantalizing suggestion that you can choose an output filter: Usage: pbpaste [-help] [-Prefer rtf|ps|ascii] It turns out that this isn't what happense. These commands date from the NeXT era. If anybody's interested, they can look here for an html-ified man page: http://www.vorlesungen.uni-osnabrueck.de/informatik/shellscript/Html/Man/_Man_NeXT_html/html1/pbcopy.1.html jking
