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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Software Update reporting script Post 302306242 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Saturday 11th of April 2009 08:56:30 PM

04-11-2009

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I'm not seeing the -l option in man softwareupdate, but it ran without complaining in my one test (on a machine that needed no updates).

You should be able to grep the lines relating to software updates, then pipe to "wc -l"

Store that in a variable, then write the host name and update count to a file, presumable with an easily parsible delimiter (like "=" for instance).

Push the file to a central mutually accessible location, then cat the files.
From there you can create your report.

The important part is determining the unique character/s you want to grep for on the hosts, before writing the host specific reports. It's pretty easy to determine from the "man" output, and running the command on a few machines that actually need updates.

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zgrep

ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep  options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

                                                                                                                                          ZGREP(1)