The past, present, and future of the Mac Proīack in August of 2015, Apple removed the distinct online store from its web site. Now that I've written it up, that shouldn't happen again. And if I happen to rename one of my Macs, the script will also fail to run, letting me know I need to update the name in the script.Ī simple tip, but one I'd managed to overlook for years. TheDest=/other/path/to/local/copy/of/apps Īnother nice thing about this is the script won't run on a Mac I haven't set up yet, thanks to the #) bit. Robs-rMBP.local) theHub=/different/path/to/apps/on/manytricks/cloud Robs-iMac.local) theHub=/path/to/apps/on/manytricks/cloud For instance, I can set unique paths for the script that grabs the latest versions of our apps from our server: myhost=`hostname` With that, and the case statement, I can make my shell scripts use code based on which machine runs them. Then I remembered the hostname command, which returns the name of the machine running the command: $ hostnameĪnd that was the tidbit of 'duh!' knowledge I needed. I couldn't figure out how to make that happen with just one script, so I'd been using near-identical versions on each Mac. So if I want to reference the path to my Dropbox folder, it needs to be different on each Mac.

The path to my Dropbox folder, for example, is different on my laptop and my iMac. I have a few shell scripts that I'd like to keep on the Many Tricks cloud server, as I'd like to use them on multiple Macs.īut depending on which Mac is running the script, I might need to use unique code. This is one of those 'oh duh!' things that I wish I'd realized earlier.

Dropbox for mac 10.7.5