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How to view the kernel on MacOS?
I am learning Linux command line by William Shotts,
The Kernal directory can been accessed by :
ls /bin
# Contain Linux kernal, inital RAM disk image
How to view the kernel on MacOS?
$ ls /boot
ls: /boot: No such file or directory
That depends on your version of macOS.
Previously the kernel XNU was locate at the root directory and named mach_kernel:
$ ls -la /mach_kernel
Apparently starting with 10.11 El Capitan and in mac OS 10.12 Sierra this file was moved and renamed:
$ ls -la /System/Library/Kernels/kernel
