macOS Command-Line Tools You Might Not Know About

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wl-clipboard

#Video Downloader #Download Manager #Mac Tools 9 social mentions

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xclip

I find it so annoying that these only work with plain text and RTF. On X11 there is `xclip`[0] and on Wayland there is `wl-clipboard`[1] both of which support binary file formats either through parsing the header or explicitly setting the MIME type. This means you can do things like copy an image from the terminal and paste it into a graphical program like a browser or chat client and vice-versa. Also can be very useful in shell scripts for desktop automation. The workaround on MacOS is to use AppleScript via `osascript` to `set the clipboard to...`. [0] <a href="https://github.com/astrand/xclip">https://github.com/astrand/xclip</a>.

#Video Downloader #Download Manager #YouTube Downloader 4 social mentions

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Bat

I've been using bat as a cat replacement for a while now. It includes paging, syntax highlighting, line numbers, and is generally very performant. <a href="https://github.com/sharkdp/bat">https://github.com/sharkdp/bat</a>.

#Developer Tool #Terminal Tools #REST API 103 social mentions

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fast-cli

There is also a CLI client for speedtest.net[1] and fast.com[2]! Not included with MacOS, of course, but nice to have around. [1] https://www.speedtest.net/apps/cli [2] <a href="https://github.com/sindresorhus/fast-cli">https://github.com/sindresorhus/fast-cli</a>.

#Monitoring Tools #Speed Test #Developer Tools 3 social mentions

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yt-dlp

FYI: yt-dlp is more up to date and faster, AFIK: <a href="https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp">https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp</a> I download and save it as 'ytdl' for convenience, but I use it all the time on twitter too.

#Video Downloader #Download Manager #YouTube Downloader 865 social mentions