On Wednesday, Feb 26, 2003, at 12:44 US/Pacific, Jonathan King wrote:There is a man page, under section 8.But my "favorite" undocumented program in the system is /usr/sbin/softwareupdate. Uniquely powerful, no man page, no source I can find, and a couple of things that look a bit weird in the output when I run "strings" on it.
To join the OT bitch parade, I wish there was better documentation of the command-line system profiler. I forgot how to call it, and haven't been able to find it easily. A fairly useful program that was reintroduced but is strangely unadvertised, undocumented, and (for me) un-found.
You have two choices here ... /usr/sbin/AppleSystemProfiler, which is actually an AppleScript that starts up /Applications/Utilities/Apple System Profiler and dumps a report from it, or /usr/sbin/system_profiler.
No man page for either, though.
adam
