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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to get the mounted size of a compressed .dmg. I can use hdiutil imageinfo -plist $imagename to get a lot of info, including what I need. The problem is that I have no idea how to parse that single piece of info into a variable (or in this case, array element). Here is what I have so... (2 Replies)
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2. OS X (Apple)
I'm using an old conversion method for converting a plist into an XML file, but that's not what I'm needing just via terminal now. What I'm looking for is an answer to convert a plist file into an executable. I'd like to import it into Casper and have the JSS push it out onto an image. In this... (6 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey guys,
I have this file generated by me... i want to create some HTML output from it.
The problem is that i am really confused about how do I go about reading the file.
The file is in the following format:
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Here is a data file, which I believe is in YAML. I am trying to retrieve just the 'addon_domains" section, which doesnt seem to be as easy as I had originally thought. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!! I have been trying to do this in awk and mostly bash scripting instead of perl... (3 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello all,
I am admittedly a newbie and have created a plist designed to fire off a shell script everyday at 3:00pm. It is located in /Library/LaunchDaemons/. I use it to mirror a hard local drive with a remote one. It worked one time but not again after that. I never restart the machine... (0 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Experts,
Im a new bee for scripting,
I would ned to do the following via linux shell scripting, I have an application which throws a log file, on each action of a particular work with the application, as sson as the action is done, the log file would vanish or stops updating there, the... (2 Replies)
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Hi there,
I'm trying to retrieve a value from a plist file, which I have done before with no problems, however this plist file looks a little different....
Normally it's like this;
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
key>KeyName</key>
<string>blah</string>
I want the value of KeyName, so... (1 Reply)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I'm trying to write a script that will look in an /exports folder for the oldest export file and move it to a /staging folder. "Oldest" in this case is actually determined by date information embedded in the file names themselves.
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what is the best way of editing the various .plist files without adding third party files? Or is the easiest way is to add third party applications, which ones? please kept in mind that i am not a programmer.
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