Bash scripts for setting up and maintaining your Mac
Maybe you aren't using the bash shell on your Mac when you go to the command line -- I prefer fish myself. Since macOS Catalina, the default shell is zsh. Still, bash is installed on every Mac that runs OS X. As a result, these scripts will run on most every Mac.
Because of this, I only use bash commands that are available on the standard Mac installation of bash.
An overview of the scripts: what they do, why you'd want to use them.
This script uses Apple's softwareupdate tool, and Homebrew, The Missing Package Manager for macOS, to update all the software on your Mac, including:
- System software (handled by
softwareupdate) - Software tools managed by homebrew
- Apps managed by the Mac App Store, using the
mastool in homebrew
- Handle command line arguments for verbose / silent, write log file