I am wondering about OS X’s tendency to replace much of the known Unix infrastructure with new tools. I just used dscl and niutils to recover some data and found that some tools available on older Unix (and modern Linux) flavours would perform the same tricks.
Matt Wade: Matt is an Editor and technical reviewer of several different titles.
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