Use awk to evaluate compound conditions
You search for items in macOS using compound conditions in a number of ways. One way is with awk. Here, we’re going to grab the output of a simple ls command. That gets piped into an awk statement....
View ArticleUnravelling Undocumented Middleware
via GIPHY Some tasks are like the Labrynth. You walk around a corner, mark a block in chalk so you can go back, and then a goblin switches your arrow to a different direction. Or you go through a door...
View ArticleJamf Pro 9.98 Now Available
The next release of iOS (10.3), macOS (10.12.4), and tvOS (10.2) bring us a host of new management features. These include DEP configuration, remote wipe, single app mode, conference room mode, and...
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log, logs, and logger
This is the first page of a 5 page piece I just finished writing for MacTech. After the last episode of the MacAdmins podcast though, I wanted to go ahead and get some of the information out there. For...
View ArticleTethered Caching of iOS Assets from macOS 10.12.4
There is a new service in macOS, called Tetherator. Tethered-caching is a script that allows you to easily and quickly interact with the tethered-caching service, which has a few kinda’ cool options....
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MacADUK Videos Now Available
The videos from the MacADUK sessions are now available on the Internets! Including such great sessions as “What’s New With Managing macOS and iOS” from Marko Jung, “Something something commercial,...
View ArticleEpisode 28 of the MacAdmins Podcast: Canadian Conferences, DEP,...
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View ArticleTo Hex And Back
The xxd is a bash command in Linux and macOS that is used to take a hexdump (convert a string to hex), or convert hex back to a string. To use xxd, just call it with a couple of options. Below, we’ll...
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Security Considerations When Selecting Cloud-Based Software
My latest piece on Huffington Post: OMG the cloud! Everything must go to the cloud, and now! And sometimes finding a tool is about workflow. And the workflow should make sense and be awesome. But...
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Getting Bloggers To Talk About Your Crap
The original title of this piece didn’t last long. That’s too bad. ‘Cause I thought “Getting Bloggers To Talk About Your Crap” was kinda’ fun. But my latest inc.com article ended up getting called “6...
View Articlebasename and dirname Options
There are two useful commands when scripting operations that involve filenames and paths. The first of these is dirname: dirname can be used to return the directory portion of a path. The second is...
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Episode 30 Of The MacAdmins Podcast: It’s Not Just Sharks In Puddles
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View ArticleDFU and Restore Modes For Haptic iPhones
After updating an iPhone, maybe it’s stuck. Doesn’t happen much, but it can happen. When it does, it’s great if you’ve got a backup of your phone. And those traditional means of restarting, resetting,...
View ArticleEpisode 31 of the MacAdmins Podcast, with Caleb Coy
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View ArticleQuickLook Crashing?
I recently had an issue where QuickLook was crashing every time I clicked on certain file types. I thought they were unsupported by QuickLook. But it turns out that they were animated and trying to...
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One-liner To Grab Which macOS Caching Server You’re Using
There’s a macOS tool called AssetCacheLocatorUtil located at /usr/bin/AssetCacheLocatorUtil. The output is in… stderr. Because stderr is so fun to work with (note that sed -i only works with stdin)....
View ArticleShow MySQL Settings
MySQL usually pulls settings from a my.cnf file. However, you can end up with settings in include files, which can be defined in the my.cnf using the following directives: include /home/mydir/myopt.cnf...
View ArticleEpisode 32: iOS 10.3 and Classroom 2.0 with Fraser Speirs
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View ArticleExtension Attribute to Grab iTunes Hashes for VPP on macOS
Here’s a new extension attribute at https://github.com/krypted/ituneshash/blob/master/ituneshash.sh for grabbing the hash ID used for iTunes Store accounts, useful with VPP: #!/bin/sh # # # #Jamf Pro...
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