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But you can also open it without the Option key by selecting “About This Mac” then pressing “System Report”. Mouse to the upper-left corner of the screen and hold down Option while you click the Apple icon. MacOS provides a GUI to display detailed information about system Hardware, Software, and Networks. In folder “/Applications/Utilities” are several apps which include “System Information.app”. Open a Finder window to view files in both folders. The “back-slash” character needs to precede every space character in the name because a space usually separates parts of commands.īTW There is also a folder at “~/Applications” for user-level apps. Mouse to the upper-left corner of the screen and click the Apple icon that appears to choose “System Preferences…”.Īlternately, you can also open the dialog with this command: open /Applications/System\ Preferences.appīTW, instead of typing out the whole line above, you can simply type “prefs” if you use a text editor to add this line in the ~/.bash_profile file: alias prefs='open /Applications/System\ Preferences.app'Īpple stores its apps in folder “/Applications”. MacOS provides a GUI to manage system configuration settings.

Its packages include zshell and tig (Git spelled backwards), the Text-Mode Interface for Git. There is also which is a collection of “the hassle-free way to get Unix programs on OS X”. Use it to search within Python libraries: apt-cache search python3 | wc -l On Debian and its derivatives is the apt-cache utility that goes with the apt-get package manager (like Homebrew and MacPorts).

MacOS (Mac OS X) comes with the BSD (Berkeley Standard Distribution) version of command line tools which are slightly different from the Linux version (in Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, CoreOS, etc.) even though both are compliant with POSIX standards.

The command that is common to all Linux/BSD variants is the one that returns the operating system name: uname Linux utilities – the Swiss Army Knife for almost every need. This article compares and contrasts macOS utilites vs.