(Tested on MacOS Mojave 10.14.6)
Homebrew is a robust package manager to install and manage Linux packages in MacOS.
This is a work in progress. We'll keep on adding the commands, as and when we find them.
| Task | MacOS | Ubuntu/Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Open a searching option in vi and some other programs | / |
same |
| Install Homebrew | /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" |
same |
| For clubbing multiple commands in a single command-line | & |
same |
| The command will run in the background | any command with at the end "&" without the quotes |
same |
| Get your EXTERNAL ip address | curl ifconfig.me |
dig @resolver4.opendns.com myip.opendns.com +short |
| Cut the output of a command column wise | cut |
same |
| Disk information | df |
lsblk' |
| Disk usage informaiton | du |
explore the command lsblk |
| Determine filetype or file extensions | file |
same |
| Find file and others | find |
same |
| For searching in output of a command | grep |
same |
| Top 10 files | head |
same |
| Write it before any brew install command and it'll prevent the auto updation of the brew | HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 |
not applicable for linux |
| Shows io registry | ioreg |
iostat |
| Get your INTERNAL ip address | ipconfig |
hostname -I uppercase "i" |
| Kill a program | kill |
same |
| Similar to more but with improved functionality with search and other capabilites | less |
same |
| List all the files in current directory | ls |
same |
| Make output of a program in page by page | more |
same |
| Run the command in the background and don’t kill it when I logout | nohup |
same |
| Open application xyz | open -a xyz |
same |
| Tells about different packages installed | pkgutil |
pacman –Qi bash |
| Get power informaiotn | pmset |
lshw |
| Get battery information | pmset -g batt |
inxi |
| Process status | ps |
same |
| Searching regular expressions | regex |
same |
| List all the available software updates | softwareupdate -l |
sudo apt list --upgradable |
| Login to user "user_name" | su -l "user_name" |
su -- username |
| Current Mac operating system version and build number. | sw_vers |
lsb_release -a |
| Similar to system_profiler bt concise | sysctl |
uname |
| Entire information related to the system. Can be not so useful if you dotn know what you re loking for. Takes a lot of time to get the output | system_profiler |
check lshw and lscpu |
date -j -f '%d-%m-%Y' "25-03-1994" +'%A' |
same | |
| Bottom 10 files | tail |
same |
| Os info | uname |
same |
| Word, line, character, byte count | wc |
same |
| Count words and line in an output | wc |
same |
| Download from link | wget link |
same |
| Windows terminal emulator for linux/mac | xterm |
same |
| Get weekday of the date 25-03-1994 | date -j -f '%d-%m-%Y' "25-03-1994" +'%A' |
same |
| Get the current month's calendar | cal |
same |
| Get the yyyy years calendar | cal yyyy |
same |
| Get the dependencies information for package package_name | brew info package_name |
apt-cache depends package_name |
| Find all the files of type .txt (extension .txt) in given directory | find /path/to/directory/ -type f -name "*.txt" |
same |
egrep '^M' |
same | |
egrep '..19' |
same | |
egrep 'M$' |
same | |
grep 'MM' RollList.csv |
same | |
egrep '[hH][aA]' RollList.csv |
same | |
egrep '[hH]..[aA]' RollList.csv |
same | |
egrep '[hH]{2}' RollList.csv |
same | |
| Any no. of letters between the two options | egrep '[hH].*[aA]' RollList.csv |
same |
| First option can repeat any no. of times | egrep '[hH]*[aA]' RollList.csv |
same |
egrep '[jJ]a[yY]' RollList.csv |
same | |
egrep '\b[jJ]a[yY]' RollList.csv |
same | |
| Change acces control of file adsf. Further info at https://www.guru99.com/file-permissions.html | chmod 755 adsf |
same |
| Add the word PREFIX to every line in the FILE | awk '{print "PREFIX"$0}' FILE |
same |
| Add the word PREFIX to every line in the FILE | sed 's/^/PREFIX/' FILE |
same |
| Replace everything in 2nd line with "3" INPLACE for all the files in current directory | sed -i.bak '2s/.*/3' * |
same |
| Searches for text asdf in the file xyz line by line and then prints from the first occurrence of the text asdf to the end of the file (denoted by $p) | sed -n '/asdf/,$p' xyz |
same |
| Searches for text dog and cat in file xyz and prints everything in between those two words (including both) | sed -n '/dog/,/cat/p' xyz |
same |
| To find the location of that command | whereis |
same |
iTerm is a powerful alternative to the default Terminal of MacOS. It has live command history and many other functionalities. You can download iTerm from here