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evolve2k
Pretty cool tool, I used it to lookup system ruby.

https://macosbin.com/bin/ruby

Younger me loved that Apple used Ruby and that Ruby was “pre installed” on the Mac.

This of course was because macOS relies on Ruby for certain things. However as a more experienced dev, the system Ruby (which is almost always very outdated), really gets in the way especially for beginners.

Anyone have more background on system Ruby and why it’s in macOS?

ysleepy
I'd love to see some deeper automated analysis.

For example the XPC endpoints the binary offers and a list of other binaries which reference those.

Maybe the launch modalities, system vs. User session, which paths it reads/writes.

Not sure if all of those things can be staically determined by some tooling, but it would be really helpful.

burnt-resistor
It seems to work for most stuff in /usr/{,s}bin /{,s}bin /usr/libexec but not all of /System/Library just yet.

Automator Installer -> /System/Library/CoreServices/Automator Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/Automator Installer

"There is no exact information for this binary file."

webdavfs_agent -> /System/Library/Extensions/webdav_fs.kext/Contents/Resources/webdavfs_agent

"The webdavfs_agent binary is unknown"

latexr
Looks pretty much abandoned. First thing I looked for was jq (added in Sequoia) but it isn’t there. Then I looked at the repo. All commit activity was during the same week, three years ago. A couple issues opened, with no progress.
qalmakka
One thing that always grinds my gears is how the macOS filesystem is a hodgepodge of stuff thrown around without any apparent logic (similarly to Windows), which is in stark contrast to the also apparently illogical but standardised hierarchy of Linux and the BSDs. I do understand their need to keep the /System directory around for the Classic days, but /usr? /sbin? The only "fixed" file should be /usr/bin/env, all the rest should be in /System. The mix of classic UNIX directories and Classic is annoying
delta_p_delta_x
> also apparently illogical but standardised hierarchy of Linux and the BSDs

Hmm.

  /usr/bin
  /usr/sbin
  /bin
  /opt/bin
  ~/bin
  ~/.local/share/bin
  ~/opt/bin

  /include 
  /lib/include
  /usr/include
  /usr/lib/include
  /usr/lib/clang/include
And many more. Some directories are symlinks to another. Some of these directories do not exist on some distributions.

Why are Linux people always so misguided and haughty?

Igrom
Would it be possible to list all binaries alphabetically on one page?