Summary of Apple Specfic terminal commands

  • grep -l 'Mac OS X' /usr/share/man/man[18]/*|while read l;do cmd=${l##*/};cmd=${cmd%.[18]};apropos $cmd|grep "^$cmd([18]) ";done|sed 's/([18]) *- / /'
  • http://lri.me/shell.txt
  • http://wiki.freegeek.org/index.php/Mac_Commandline_Tools
  • https://serverfault.com/questions/7346/what-are-useful-command-line-commands-on-mac-os-x

Online References

Have you looked at this list? It seems to provide a pretty good library of OS X commands.

There is also an API Reference of the Mac OS X Man pages online here if you would like to see all possible commands.

On your computer

Although this is not a perfect list, you can grep (search) /usr/share/man with this line (first cd /usr/share/man):

find man* -type f -print | egrep -v '.gz$' | tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0 egrep -l 'Mac ?OS ?X'

(more verbose)

or

find man* -type f -print | egrep '.gz$' | tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0 zegrep -l 'Mac ?OS ?X'

(less verbose)