It is not intended to be a general-purpose guide to shell scripting for all Mac users.

In this tutorial, we’re going to focus on the basics that IT teams need to know about Mac shell scripts, to help them perform actions on multiple devices in their organizations using a Mac device management solution. For instance, instead of switching to the Finder, navigating to /Users/Shared, and clicking File > New Folder, you could open Terminal and enter the command mkdir /Users/Shared/ NewFolderName.īut while entering commands one at a time at the command line is handy, what if you find yourself entering the same commands over and over again? Or what if you need to run the same commands on multiple computers? That’s where scripting-more specifically, Mac shell scripting-comes in handy. The CLI on macOS is typically accessed via the Terminal application. But smart Mac admins know that anything you can do in the GUI you can also do from the command-line interface (CLI). On Mac, the most obvious and most common way is through the graphical user interface (GUI) using a keyboard, mouse, or trackpad. With computers, there are usually multiple ways to do a given thing.

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