<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Dave,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://git.herrbischoff.com/awesome-macos-command-line/about/" class="">https://git.herrbischoff.com/awesome-macos-command-line/about/</a><br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>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:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://github.com/kaleidoscope-app/man-diff" class="">https://github.com/kaleidoscope-app/man-diff</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Best,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-ranga</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 17, 2021, at 13:37, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Bill Cole wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Where are all these obscure commands documented?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">/usr/share/man/man1/ and /usr/share/man/man8/ mostly...<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Perhaps I should've expressed it better :-)<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">It seems that I have to look at all the manfiles and wonder what they do...<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">FWIW, 'apropos spotlight' will tell you that mdutil and mddiagnose exist.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Sure, but my query was more of a general nature.<br class=""><br class="">-- Dave<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>