![]() Sudo scutil -set ComputerName "Deep Thought" Running the second command requires using “sudo.” Check your computer name in System Preferences > Sharing after running this one. In this case, the current computer’s name. Get or set a “system configuration” setting. Short for “superuser do” - run a command as the “superuser” or “root.” This requires that you’re currently logged in as an administrator. Mkdir -p ~/Desktop/First/Second/Third/Fourth uptimeĬreate a new folder or “make directory” at the path specified. clearĭisplay how many minutes, hours or days your computer has been running without a restart. Open /System/Library/PreferencePanes/PrintAndScan.prefPaneĮrase the Terminal window and start over at the top. Or open a URL as if you’d entered its address into a web browser: open ~/Library/Preferences Open a file or open a folder as if you’d double-clicked it. Say -v Victoria 'Are you going to eat that sandwich?' Talk to me! (Turn up the volume for this one.) say 'Hello, World!' Press the return key after each line.Įxperiment. They’re all just one line - and for some, I give you a few examples to try. Open the Terminal application found in the Applications > Utilities folder and copy and paste each command below. So, I’ll give you your first 10 commands to try out. So, I encourage you to watch the on-demand webinar. You could learn that one pedal speeds you up and the other slows you down, but knowing one pedal sends more gas to the engine to speed you up and the other pedal squeezes your wheels to slow you down gives you a better mental picture of what you’re actually doing. You don’t need to know how an engine works to begin learning how to drive a car, but it gives you confidence and a better understanding of what’s happening if you do. It’s not written to teach you how to script, but rather to show you how scripting works. ![]() It’s about an hour long, and you can eat your lunch at your desk while you soak it in. ![]() If you haven’t yet, go watch the Scripting 101 for Apple Admins webinar. That’s what I want to convince you to do. The hardest part of scripting is getting started. On a scale from one to five (where one was “scripting terrifies me” and five was “I write my own scripts”), about half rated their comfort as either three or four.įor everyone who’s used scripts, edited others’ scripts for your own needs or written your own you’re doing great - keep learning and keep improving your scripting skills! For those of you interested in scripting who said “scripting terrifies me,” this blog post is for you.Īnd anyone who’s interested in taking our Jamf Pro training courses 200, 300 or 400 will find the resources toward the end useful. Aborting.10 scripting commands for Apple admins that get you off to a strong startĭuring our Scripting 101 for Apple Admins webinar in late June, I asked attendees to share their comfort level with scripting. # We need a sanity check to make sure the mount point is availableĮcho "Could not find local mount point. # Check to see if the folder for the mount point exists, if not lets make it. It should but it's wise to makeĮcho "Source home folder not available. # Check to see if the source folder exists. # not the Apple default which is 2.6.9 which is no longerĮcho "The correct verison of rsync in not installed. # We use the compiled version of rsync version 3.10 and # Check to see if rsync is installed where it should be ![]() # Check to see if the CLT are installed, if not exit. # define an array of all items listed in the /Users folderįor user in thenĮcho "We got a logged in user!! Let's continue." #!/bin/bashĬonsoleUser=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f4` I know I can put the script locally and let it run with launchd but we are trying to use the JSS with its log reporting to find out if any failed, completed, etc. The script lives in the JSS and not on the client machine. If I call the policy from the client machine using a custom trigger within Terminal, it executes correctly. But it errors cause I guess the policy is running the script as Root so it fails like it should. I'm trying to run the script as a Policy Once per Day frequency, Re-occuring Check-In trigger. Is there a way to run an entire script as the logged in user, as opposed to a command? ![]()
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