On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, Bill Cole wrote:
Just a quick side-track: is there a pointer somewhere to these obscure
commands? It seems that I come across a new one with each new thread
on this list...
Well, which "obscure" commands are you looking for? 'man dscl' will give
you extensive instructions for dscl, and hitting tab a couple of times
at a shell prompt will offer to show you a list of a few thousand
available commands, assuming your shell has completion active and
configured normally.
Which is exactly my point: a few thousand commands that are not mentioned
anywhere except by accident. I've been a "shell" person for decades, and
whilst GUIs are all very well I want to know what's really happening under
the bonnet (ObUS: hood).
For example, "dscl" looks useful but this is the first time that I've come
across it; what other gems are awaiting me, I wonder? And it doesn't help
that the Mac's manpages are largely incomplete; I know, getting a bit
off-topic for this list...
-- Dave