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the mac-cli tool utility. here are some of my personal favorites:
View the directory in tree mode:
m dir tree
Calculate the folder size of directory:
m dir size
Shortcut to launchctl services:
m service load [com.service.here]
m service start [com.service.here]
For more Mac-specific terminal command goodness, there is this man's personal repo.
m-cli
💥 Swiss Army Knife for macOS !
Overview
Install
Uninstall
How To Use
All Commands
Contributing
Overview
m-cli is a macOS command line tool that lets you interact with utilities and applications entirely in Terminal. It differs from other macOS command line tools in the following ways:
- You can easily manage administrative tasks
- It doesn't install 3rd party tools since it doesn't have dependencies
- Installation is easy and doesn't require intervention
- It only uses macOS commands
Install
You can install m-cli using Homebrew, or you can manually install it.
Homebrew install
If you have Homebrew installed, run:
brew install m-cli
Manual install
If you want to manually install m-cli, run:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rgcr/m-cli/master/install.sh | sudo sh
You can also install it to a different path, shown below:
INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/.m-cli sh <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rgcr/m-cli/master/install.sh)
Note: Certain plugins, such as that for the "gatekeeper" command, will not work if m-cli
is installed with standard user privilege. Certain plugins, such as that for the "trash" command, will not work until and unless your terminal emulator is granted Full Disk Access (look under "Security & Privacy" in System Preferences).
Uninstall
To uninstall m-cli from your system, run:
m --uninstall
How To Use
m-cli commands are executed using the following steps:
1. Run m
to display all of the commands (utilities) available in m-cli.
2. Run m <command>
to display the options available for this command.
3. Run m <command> <option>
to execute an option for this command.
A diagram of this structure is shown below:
m
|___itunes
| |___status
| |___play
| |___pause
| |
| ...
|
|___disk
|___ls
|___list
|___fs
...
For example, running m itunes
will display the options available for iTunes, as shown below:
usage: m itunes [ status | play | pause | next | prev | mute | unmute | vol up | vol down | vol #| stop | quit | help ]
Examples:
m itunes status # Show status
m itunes play # Play track
m itunes pause # Pause track
m itunes next # Play next track
m itunes prev # Play previous track
m itunes mute # Mute iTunes
m itunes unmute # Unmute iTunes
m itunes vol up # Volume Up
m itunes vol down # Volume Down
m itunes vol # # Set volume level
m itunes stop # Stop track
m itunes quit # Quit iTunes
In this example, running m itunes play
will play the current selected track in your iTunes music library.
All Commands
m-cli currently supports the following commands:
help
airdrop
appearance
audio
battery
bluetooth
dir
disk
display
dns
dock
fan
finder
firewall
flightmode
gatekeeper
group
hostname
info
itunes
localhost
lock
network
nosleep
notification
ntp
printer
restart
safeboot
screensaver
service
shutdown
sleep
timezone
touchbar
trash
usb
update
user
volume
vpn
wallpaper
wifi