rodrigobdz / macos-cheatsheet

Collection of useful macOS commands

macOS Cheatsheet

Highly recommended: tldr-pages/tldr (website)

collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools, that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.

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• macOS Cheatsheet
  • Shell
  • PDF
  • Plist
  • Preview
  • Related Projects

Shell

• Fix zsh's compinit error when initializing a new shell

  zsh compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list. Ignore insecure directories and continue [y] or abort compinit [n]?

  # Run the following command to fix the error above
  compaudit | xargs chmod g-w

  Source

PDF

• Merge PDFs

  gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf *.pdf

  Source

  # Requires 'python' binary
  #
  # Alternative 
  # Merge multiple pdfs in current directory with prefix foo, e.g.
  # foo1.pdf foo2.pdf and foo3.pdf and create new PDF called merged.pdf
  \ls -larth foo*.pdf | xargs "/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py" -o merged.pdf {}

  Source

  # Requires 'python' binary
  #
  # Alternative
  # Merge all pdfs in current directory into merged.pdf
  "/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py" -o merged.pdf *.pdf

Plist

• View and edit .plist files

  # Print file in human-readable format
  plutil -p foo.plist

  # Print file as XML
  /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -x -c "Print" foo.plist

• View list of bypassed invalid SSL certificate warnings in Safari

  plutil -p ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Safari/BypassedInvalidCertificateWarning.plist

Preview

• Exact string matching in search

  Quote string, as in Google search bar, e.g.

  "my sentence in preview"

  Source

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• rodrigobdz/minimal-readme