Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, Second Edition

Appendix B. Command-Line Tools: The Missing Manpages

Unfortunately, many of the command-line utilities in Mac OS X have no corresponding manpages, and documentation of any sort can be difficult to find. This appendix offers a quick reference to tools that may be helpful or interesting to Mac OS X system administrators and developers, but which have missing, incomplete, or inaccurate manpages.

Each of the following sections includes command syntax, a brief description, and the directory location of the command. (Note that some of these commands are available only if you’ve installed the Xcode Tools that comes with Mac OS X.) Table B-1 is a list of all the commands documented in this appendix.

Table B-1. Documented commands

AuthorizationTrampoline	hwprefs	open-x11
autodiskmount	ipconfig	pdisk
automount	kdumpd	pdump
CCLEngine	kuncd	postfix-watch
cd9660.util	languagesetup	register_mach_bootstrap_servers
certtool	makekey	screencapture
checkgid	mDNS	scselect
chkpasswd	mDNSResponder	scutil
configd	mount_devfs	SecurityServer
CpMac	mount_ftp	service
create_nidb	mount_smbfs	sips
DirectoryService	mount_synthfs	SplitForks
disktool	mount_volfs	systemkeychain
fixmount	msdos.util	udf.util
fixPrecomps	notifyd	ufs.util
FixupResourceForks	ntp-wait	unzip
gcc_select	ntptimeset	vndevice
hfs.util	od	vsdbutil
hostinfo	opendiff	zip