On 30 Mar 2019, at 05:37, Bill Kochman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ha! I took it a step further and installed coreutils, moreutils, findutils 
> and a number of others, via Homebrew and MacPorts.

Both? I would pick one (Homebrew) and stick with it. I gave up MacPorts because 
it required a full install of Xcode (8GB) while Homebrew requires only the 
command line utilities,

> Do you think I overdid it a bit?

Perhaps 😃

osxutils looks interesting.

cpath        copy the current working directory to the clipboard
finfo        print information about a file in a style similar to the Mac OS X 
Finder
getfcomment  print a file's Spotlight comment
geticon      extract a file's icon as an image
getvolume    show the global system volume setting
google       search Google in default browser
hfsdata      print a file's HFS- or Mac-specific metadata
lsmac        list directory contents with OS X metadata
mkalias      create OS X Finder aliases
rcmac        recursively list files (like lsmac)
setfcomment  set a file's Spotlight comments
setfctypes   set heritage OS X File Type or Creator of a file
setfflags    set a file's Finder flags
seticon      set a file's OS X Icon
setlabel     set a file's Finder Label
setsuffix    batch modify file suffices
setvolume    set the global system volume
mvtrash      move a file to the Trash
wikipedia    search Wikipedia in default browser
wsupdate     update the Finder filesystem display

> The way I figure, they take up so little space, I’d rather have them there 
> for the rare occasion when someday some app may need one of them.  😃

They might conflict with something else, but homebrew is good about keeping 
things organized.


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