macOS Archives

Terminal command to show connected displays/monitors/resolutions?

April 22, 2022Apple, macOSDisplays, system_profiler, Terminal, Troubleshooting

system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType or defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20099333/terminal-command-to-show-connected-displays-monitors-resolutions

Bypass a FileVault Password On a Per Boot Basis

April 22, 2022Apple, macOSFileVault

sudo fdesetup authrestart Link https://osxdaily.com/2015/03/06/bypass-filevault-password-per-boot-mac-os-x/

kill safari in terminal

April 21, 2022Apple, macOSSafari, Terminal

osascript -e "tell application \"Safari\" to quit"

Who is logged in

April 21, 2022Apple, macOSaccount, Terminal, Users

stat -f '%u %Su' /dev/console who NAME w – display who is logged in and what they are doing w SEE ALSO finger(1), ps(1), uptime(1), who(1) Link https://superuser.com/questions/180819/how-can-you-find-out-the-currently-logged-in-user-in-the-os-x-gui https://osxdaily.com/2014/03/25/see-users-who-connected-to-mac/

macOS Catalina Build: (19H1824) Version Information 2022-03-14

April 21, 2022Apple, macOS10.15 - macOS Catalina, Patching

macOS Catalina Version Information --------------------------------------------------- Version: 10.15.7 Build: (19H1824), Last Revision Date: 2022-03-14T21:17:26Z

Get Console – User Logged – in username

April 16, 2022Apple, macOSBash Scripts, Users

Get logged in user's name stat -f%Su /dev/console

system_profiler

April 14, 2022Apple, macOSsystem_profiler

NAME system_profiler -- reports system hardware and software configuration. SYNOPSIS system_profiler [-usage] system_profiler [-listDataTypes] system_profiler [-xml] dataType1 ... dataTypeN system_profiler [-xml] [-detailLevel level] system_profiler [-json] dataType1 ... dataTypeN system_profiler [-json]…

List of applications installed?

April 13, 2022Apple, macOSPatching, softwareupdate, system_profiler

system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType >> ~/Desktop/SomeFilename.txt system_profiler SPInstallHistoryDataType -json | awk -F'"' '/_name|install_version|install_date/{print $2,$4}' | grep -A3 "macOS" | sed -e 's/_name /Name: /g;s/install_version /Version: /g;s/install_date /Date: /g' JSON format system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType…

Troubleshoot Smart Cards

April 13, 2022Apple, macOSlogs, PKI, Security, Smart Cards, Troubleshooting

log stream --predicate '(subsystem == "com.apple.CryptoTokenKit") Link https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/use-a-smart-card-depc705651a9/web

curl

April 12, 2022Apple, macOScurl

NAME curl - transfer a URL SYNOPSIS curl [options / URLs] DESCRIPTION curl is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported protocols…