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I agree with the complaint too but not only are many of these commands mac only but in addition to that, they are not less commonly used (ex vim). I feel like I could have gotten quite a few less commonly used tools by

    ls /usr/bin/|sort -R|head
In my opinion it was a poorly named article with just as poor content. Many of the descriptions of the commands were not good ("lsof: godlike"). Better descriptions could generally even be found automatically:

    man lsof|grep NAME -A1 -m1|tail -n1


Even easier way to get short descriptions of commands:

    whatis lsof
    apropos lsof


Much better than my way. Formatting is nicer and I was using GNU specific flags for grep. :-(


You're being that guy.




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