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Run command on mac mac#

I can even demo PowerShell remoting between all three operating systems.

Run command on mac code#

Now I can demo PowerShell Core 6 and Visual Studio Code side-by-side on three different operating systems.

Run command on mac pro#

But now in my bag I also carry a MacBook Pro running VMs of Windows and Linux for one ultimate demo machine. I have the coolest job, and I love my Microsoft Surface Pro 4.

This version of PowerShell will be different than the Windows PowerShell edition you see built into Windows today. NET Core, a cross-platform, open-source version of the code base powering most of the Windows world. However, it is PowerShell Core designed to run cross-platform on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The next release of PowerShell (6.0) was open-sourced last year and is currently in beta. Are you ready for this? What is PowerShell Core? Touch /Users/ $loggedInUser/Library/Preferences/uk.ac. we have a guest post from Honorary Script Guy and Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Ashley McGlone, also known as GoateePFE. # Create an empty file to signify that the Dock has been set up Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "~/Downloads" '

Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/VLC.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/BBEdit.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Skype for Business.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Microsoft Excel.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Microsoft PowerPoint.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Microsoft Word.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017/Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2017/Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Adobe InDesign CC 2017/Adobe InDesign CC 2017.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2017/Adobe Illustrator.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2017/Adobe After Effects CC 2017.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Safari.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Self Service.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Lock Screen.app" –no-restart ' Su " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –add "/Applications/Launchpad.app" –no-restart ' Su – " $loggedInUser " -c '/usr/local/bin/dockutil –remove all –no-restart ' If thenĮcho "Dock already set up for user $loggedInUser, exiting… "Įcho "Dock has not been set up for user $loggedInUser, setting up now… " # Check for the presence of a file created by this script to determine if the Dock has already been configured and if so, exit LoggedInUser= `python -c 'from SystemConfiguration import SCDynamicStoreCop圜onsoleUser import sys username = (SCDynamicStoreCop圜onsoleUser(None, None, None) or ) username = ] (username + "\n") ' `

Determine who the current logged in user is and set that as a variable.

But what if you need to run a command as if it’s being run by the current logged in user themselves as part of a policy? One example would be to use a utility like mysides to configure a their sidebar, or if you want to invoke lsregister to register an application so that user doesn’t see something this the first time it’s launched (kudos to on the MacAdmins Slack for pointing out that this tends to be more of an issue for applications living outside /Applications as macOS takes care of those automatically, but I digress):įor a working solution, we need to do two things: Scripts executed this way are run as the root user, which is all well and good if you need to do stuff to the system as a whole with elevated privileges. One interesting thing about Jamf Pro is that it can execute scripts during a policy run.

Run command on mac mac#

I’ve already been using this technique for a while but today, thanks to our fantastic Mac Admins community, I’ve learned a little bit more about it, so it might be worth a blog post.