Sending long commands, or starting long downloads to multiple machines via ARD is fine unless you need to use ARD for something else, or if you want to close your machine prior to it being done. Using a Task Server is an option if you are willing to pay for another copy of the app, [...]
$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Server HD 999.9 GB disk0s2 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk1 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1 2: Apple_HFS HD2 2.0 TB disk1s2 /dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: [...]
This script either verifies, or creates the 3 main shared directories we use for local, school-based servers. The student_data directory has directories within it to house different student directories within their graduation year. All have permissions set so staff has read access to all student folders, and students have read access to only the upper [...]
We have many Open Directory servers at many locations. Each has it’s own group setup as well as it’s own place to save students’ work. Manually creating these folder locations, managing permissions on these folders, and setting up the groups can take a long time. I just learned about the command awk, and thought I [...]
For names without spaces mkdir ‘cat file’ For names with spaces awk ‘{system(“mkdir “” $0 “”")}’ file Change names in a file with spaces to an underscore sed ‘s/\_/\ /’ file > file1
networksetup is the key. This appears from Leopard (10.5.x) on. Prior to that, we would use the tried and true ifconfig. The man pages of networksetup are actually well laid out and informational. A few to remember: $ networksetup -listallnetworkservices A plaintext view of network services $ networksetup -listallhardwareports A list of network services, ports, [...]