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Re: undocumented tools in OS X (was Re: Server Version Inquiry)

Also worst case, go to www.google.com and type in the command name and you most
likely will find a man page for the command if its a common utility on other
*nix OSs. so just for reference go to google and either search something like:
man ls, or man ps, etc :)

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:07:25 -0700
Leon Towns-von Stauber <email@hidden> wrote:
> >I keep running into tools on the lists that don't have man pages so
> >don't show up with apropos commands, how do you guys end up finding out
> >about them?
>
> Poke around. In particular, take a look through /usr/bin and
> /usr/sbin. If you see something that looks interesting, see if
> there's a man page.
>
> If there isn't, try running the command. Try to get a usage
> statement by running it without options, or with "-h", or
> "--help", or some switch you figure it wouldn't implement
> (say, "-Z"). Most OS X commands that don't have man pages (and
> there are, unfortunately, quite a few of these) will generate
> usage statements without too much trouble. However, some of
> those usage statements are out of date. :-S
>
> BTW, don't try this on a machine you need running, because
> some things will screw it up.
>
> If that doesn't help, use "strings" on the binary and see if
> there's anything useful. If you're lucky, a usage statement
> will be embedded in the binary, even if you can't figure out
> how to generate it by running the command.
>
> Finally, if it's included in Darwin (and most are), check out
> the source code. The CVSWeb at OpenDarwin.org is one way:
>
> http://www.opendarwin.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/
>
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