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Mapping GUI tools to CLI

post #1 of 4
7/7/03 at 9:18pm
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Does anyone know of a good resource for finding CLI equivalents to GUI tools?

Such as:

System Preferences -> Network : networksetup
Almost all app preferences: defaults
Disk Utility: fsck/[hfs,ufs].util/etc

Specifically, I'm looking for a CLI version of Apple System Profiler, perhaps a bit more friendly to use than ioreg.
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post #2 of 4
7/7/03 at 9:32pm
Actually, open up Terminal and enter the command "AppleSystemProfiler".

It'll launch ASP in the background, close it, and then print output to the Terminal. You can pipe it into other tools or into a file or whatever else you want.
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post #3 of 4
7/7/03 at 9:37pm
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Oh you have *GOT* to be kidding me.

Okay, will it work over ssh, with no remote GUI running?

Jeez, and here *I* was looking through the man pages. Silly me. *sigh*
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post #4 of 4
7/8/03 at 1:07pm
dmesg will also return similar output.

Dobby.
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