.osx: value options reference?

[kevinSuttle]

Is therer an exhaustive reference of the value options for OSX?

defaults
launchctl
systemsetup 
pmset
nvram
scutil
usr/libexec/PlistBuddy  

Do you just look up the man pages?

And for even for items like:

find ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock -name "*.db" -maxdepth 1 -delete

How do you go about finding out these are even possible, let alone the things you can do with them? I know a lot comes from community contributions and Googling, but I'm just wondering if you have any references or research methods. Thanks Mat!

[kevinSuttle]

I should add that it's nice that some of the .osx entries have a list of possible values, but it's not consistent. I'm honestly not sure if they should be separated since there would probably be so many, or if they should be made consistent and live inline. I lean heavily towards the former option. Maybe a DEFAULT_VALUES.md?

[kevinSuttle]

man systemsetup is pretty comprehensive, but man defaults says that it was last updated a DECADE ago (at least the copyright). It's not useful at all really.

man launchctl is decent, but it doesn't give possible values per sé, more like options/flags.

man pmset really thorough.

man nvram is OK. Not much to it (I don't think there's much to mention).

man scutil is also OK, but it goes over my head honestly.

usr/libexec/PlistBuddy seems a bit shrouded in mystery.

[marcoslhc]

It would be nice to have a reference of the values for each [domain] [property] in defaults write there must be some listing @mathiasbynens use as a reference

[mathiasbynens]

Relevant: #5 (comment)

@marcoslhc:

[…] there must be some listing @mathiasbynens use as a reference

Sadly, http://mths.be/osx is the reference. It’s compiled from various sources (the most important ones are credited in the README): Twitter, blog posts, etc., but most of it was found by figuring out the key/value pairs for each setting manually.

[kevinSuttle]

Interesting. Well, I think I speak for all of us when I say 'thanks for compiling all this and making it available.' Open source at its finest.

[kevinSuttle]

Stumbled onto this, which may be of tremendous help. Interested to hear what you think.

https://github.com/kevinSuttle/OSXDefaults/blob/master/README.md

[kevinSuttle]

Even better, I made a reference:

https://github.com/kevinSuttle/OSXDefaults/blob/master/REFERENCE.md

[marcoslhc]

Neat! Thanks! Might be good if it's included ib the main repository

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Even better, I made a reference:

https://github.com/kevinSuttle/OSXDefaults/blob/master/REFERENCE.md

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