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Mac-specific command line utilities (UPDATES)

osxutils is a bundle of Mac OS X command line utilities that bring power over all sorts of Mac-specific information, settings and meta-data to the command line.

Formerly found at (broken links):

  • Documentation: http://sveinbjorn.org/osxutils_docs
  • SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxutils/

osxutils is written by Sveinbjorn Thordarson. I have updated it to work on 64-bit systems and modern versions of Mac OS X. Change notes:

  • Wrote Makefile, since xcodeproj files are fragile
  • Replaced or rewrote deprecated functions
  • Rewrote 'trash' so it properly renames files
  • Getting OS 9 comments is not possible on OS X 10.5 and later
  • wsupdate is probably useless on modern systems

Tested on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. I'd appreciate if anybody wants to test on other versions as well.

-Dave Vasilevsky