Display & Safety

brightness

# Get current brightness (0.0 to 1.0)
brightness -l

# Set brightness to 80%
brightness 0.8

# Set brightness to minimum
brightness 0.0

# Set brightness to maximum
brightness 1.0

trash (macos-trash)

Safe alternative to rm — moves files to macOS Trash:

# Move file to trash
trash file.txt

# Move multiple files
trash file1.txt file2.txt dir/

# Move with confirmation prompt
trash --interactive file.txt

Guidelines

• Use trash instead of rm when the user might want to recover files
• Use rm only for temporary/generated files where recovery isn't needed
• Brightness value is 0.0 (off) to 1.0 (max)
• brightness -l lists all displays when multiple monitors connected