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24.01 MacEnterprise: Command Line Goodies

by Philip Rinehart
Jan, 2008 Issue

Article Synopsis

Following last month's article, let's look at some of the more interesting command line tools that have appeared. The first tool, pkgutil allows manipulation of the package database. Last month I also talked about the addition of dtrace. New to Leopard, major parts of the Dtrace ToolKit by Brendan Gregg have been added. Some of them can prove quite useful in diagnosing and troubleshooting particularly thorny problems.

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