Wednesday, June 8, 2011

10.6: A script to display available Apple software updates

Snow Leopard only hintThis is a script that is supposed to be used with GeekTool if you are running as a non-admin user (as I am) and thus no longer get to see when new software is available from Apple.

I grew tired of being a good user and not run as admin anymore, but then not getting info about new software from Apple. Therefore I wrote 'SoftwareUpdateCheck.sh,' a bash-script that gathers info from the command-line utility 'softwareupdate' and presents it.

In short:
  • It checks the software update every six hours.
  • It updates the presentation every fifteen minutes.
  • The script checks for a new version of itself every two weeks and automatically updates itself.
You can find all about it the options and functionality of the script ...

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