Archive for tag: command line

Mac OS X Command Line Audio Player afplay

22 July, 2010 (06:30) | Mac OS X, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

The little command-line tool afplay comes preinstalled with OS X and can be used to play Audio files. I don't use it often but sometimes it is nice to pre-listen an audio file with it, because it needs far less resources than starting up a media player like VLC or even iTunes .

To only ...

Introduction to Command-Line Administration by Apple

5 July, 2010 (06:30) | Mac OS X, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

Today I found a nice Mac OS X Command-Line Introduction by Apple. Although its full title is "Mac OS X Server, Introduction to Command-Line Administration, Version 10.6 Snow Leopard" it has less to do with the OS X server version but the OS X Command-Line in general.

The document has about 60 pages and can ...