Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks, Second Edition

Apple’s Command-Line Developer Tools

The following list of utilities can be found in /Developer/Tools after you have installed the Xcode Tools package. Xcode depends on some of these tools; some of them have their roots in Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop (MPW), which is Apple’s old development environment.

agvtool

Acts as a versioning tool for Xcode projects.

BuildStrings

Creates resource string definitions.

CpMac

Serves as an alternative to cp; preserves resource forks when copying.

cvs-unwrap

Extracts a tar file created by cvs-wrap.

cvs-wrap

Combines a directory into a single tar file.

cvswrappers

Checks an entire directory into CVS as a binary file.

DeRez

Displays the contents of a resource fork.

GetFileInfo

Displays extended information about a file, including creator code and file type.

MergePef

Merges code fragments from one file into another.

MvMac

Serves as an alternative to mv; preserves resource forks when copying.

pbhelpindexer

Creates an index of Apple’s API documentation for Xcode.

pbprojectdump

Used by Xcode’s FileMerge feature to produce more readable diffs between file versions.

pbxcp

Supports Xcodes’s build system; an internal tool.

pbxhmapdump

Debugs header maps; also internal to Xcode.

ResMerger

Merges resource manager resource files. Xcode’s build system compiles .r files into .rsrc files using Rez, and if needed, Xcode merges multiple files using ResMerger.

Rez

Compiles resource files.

RezWack

Embeds resource and data forks in a file. ...