knowuhs sleepy brain: more geek notes

January 05, 2005

more command line goodness in os X:

open - open a file with the finder (or supply app name with -a)

say - speak an item (pipe commands output to speach) even better yet, use the -o option and have the output of saved to an aiff file.

pbcopy - pipe commands to the system clipboard (ls | pbcopy)

pbpaste - pipe commands out from the clipboard (echo `pbpaste`)

osascript -- run apple scripts from the command line.

Posted by knowuh at January 5, 2005 08:40 PM