Practical Scripting – MacSysAdmin Online 2020

These are the slides and notes to my presentation “Practical Scripting” for the MacSysAdmin Online 2020.

• Slides: iCloud, PDF
• Video

You might also want to watch my Virtual JNUC 2020 presentation on “Scripting Jamf: Best Practices.”

Installomator

• GitHub: scriptingosx/Installomator
• Introducing Installomator
• Using Installomator with Jamf Pro
• AutoPkg
• Download and Install Microsoft Product – William Smith
• HandBrake hacked to drop new variant of Proton malware – Malwarebytes Labs (2017)
• Transmission hijacked again to spread malware – Malwarebytes Labs (2016)

Shebang

• On the Shebang (from 2017, before zsh was made default shell)
• About bash, zsh, sh, and dash in macOS Catalina and beyond
• Moving to zsh, part 8 – Scripting zsh
• Get Current User in Shell Scripts on macOS (another post that starts talking about the current user, but then goes into bash, zsh, and sh differences)
• Snakes on a Plan – Greg Neagle, MacSysAdmin Online 2020 (link forthcoming)
• Wrangling Pythons

macOS System Version

• This One Goes to 11 – Greg Neagle, MacSysAdmin Online 2020
• macOS Version Big Sur Update
• macOS version numbering isn’t so simple –Howard Oakley

Return Codes

• Show Exit Code in your bash Prompt
• Moving to zsh, part 6 – Customizing the zsh Prompt

User Interaction

• User Interaction from bash Scripts
• Running a Command as another User

Conclusion

• MacAdmins Slack

You can find me on the MacAdmins Slack and Twitter as @scriptingosx.