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page request: low-level macOS tools

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#6,431 opened on Aug 27, 2021

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help wantednew command

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only available on osx (Darwin, maybe even macOS-exclusive) and basically no online documentation

  • AddressBookSync
  • apfs_hfs_convert
  • AssetCacheLocatorUtil
  • AssetCacheManagerUtil
  • AssetCacheTetheratorUtil
  • asr #2464
  • brctl
  • cpuctl #21959
  • darwin-debug
  • dirs_cleaner
  • hidutil #3389????
  • hdid #22046
  • installer #21917
  • kdcsetup
  • krbservicesetup
  • nvram #6617
  • sandbox-exec
  • spindump #22346
  • tailspin
  • vtool
  • od_user_homes
  • zdump

you should be able to find some more ones in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

before making a pr for one of these pages, please first check whether this is actually not available on other oses like freebsd, because then it belongs in common

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Pick one unmarked tool from the list (e.g., brctl), verify it's macOS only by checking its availability on other platforms, run it with help or without arguments to see its usage, and create a tldr page following the contribution guidelines.
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