Specifications

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The following command line tools are unique to Mac OS X or substantially dierent
from implementations on other UNIX platforms. See their man pages for more details.
An online version of the man pages in Mac OS X and Mac OS X server is available at:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/
Section 1 Man Pages
Man pages in section 1 refer to general command-line tools and utilities.
See the intro(1) man page for more information about this section.
afconvert(1) Audio le converter
afinfo(1) Audio le information
afplay(1) Audio le player
afscexpand(1) Decompress les compressed with HFS+ compression
amlint(1) Check Automator actions for problems
applesingle(1) Encode and decode les
ar(1) Create and maintain library archives
arch(1) Print architecture type or run selected architecture of a universal
binary
authopen(1) Open le with authorization
automator(1) Runs Automator workow
auval(1) AudioUnit validation
auvaltool(1) AudioUnit validation
binhex(1) Encode and decode les
BuildStrings(1) Generate header (.h) or resource (.r) le from text les
compileHelp(1) Command-line utility to merge contextual help rtf snippets into
one resource
Appendix
Command-Line Tools Specic to
Mac OS X