Installing the Xcode Command Line Tools on OS X 10.11 "El Capitan"Edit

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For some reason, Apple makes it ridiculously hard to discover the download for these tools, but it turns out that you can install them easily with:

$ xcode-select --install

Note: You may have to install Xcode from the Mac App Store first, in order to get the xcode-select binary. (I don’t know for sure, because I had already installed Xcode before trying to get the Command Line Tools.)