Script to create folders from text file
A script for macos that creates and names individual folders from a .txt file containing the list of names of these; place these dynamically named subfolders in the /Users/shared directory…
find files of a variable fileType
Find files of variable fileType The script will search your machine for files with the specified file type and save the results in a CSV file named by timestamp and…
extract_icons bash script
get_app_icon_graphics Collect copies of macOS icons in .png format from apps installed 2 levels deep from Applications folder bash script that extracts all the icons in png format from the…
Time Synchronization
To check the state of the system, run the following command(s): /bin/launchctl list | /usr/bin/grep -c com.apple.timed If the result is not 1, this is a finding. Remediation Description Perform…
Application lists and downloads up-to-date Big Sur and Monterey Install Assistants
this app has worked for downloading the Monterey Install Assistant before, but now it does it better added an icon for Monterey and it should now use the correct software…
cat – concatenate command
NAME cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output SYNOPSIS cat [OPTION]... [FILE]... Here Document: the here document syntax can be used with the cat command: cat >…
scp: secure copy
NAME scp -- secure copy (remote file copy program) Copy remote files to local machine: This example using admin as the admin user to login to host. This will prompt…
Convert timestamps to dates in Bash?
date -r date -r 1267619929 Current timestamp: date +"%s" Links: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2371248/how-to-convert-timestamps-to-dates-in-bash https://linuxconfig.org/convert-timestamp-to-date
List .app applications and macOS Components
List ".app" Applications ls /Applications/ | awk -F '.app' '{ print $1}' - ls / | awk -F '.app' '{ print $1}' >> ~/Desktop/ListOfAllAPPs.txt Use SystemProfiler Find Identified Developers system_profiler…
Patch Lister Script
Link: https://github.com/patent-ed/SoftwarePatchList/blob/a24425a98c0fa2be11f1b2d955db8cf5005c5371/software_updates7.sh