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Create an installer package for a shell script

to shell osx mac bash package installer install lsbom packagemaker by jvs on Jan 09, 2009

Requires Xcode.

# "Package a single item for installation"
open -a 'Help Viewer' /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Help_Book/html/contents.html


find /Library/Receipts -name "*.bom" | grep -i myapp || echo 'You can go on!'
ls -l /usr/local/bin/hello.sh 2>/dev/null || echo 'You can go on!'


# create a package directory structure to create an installer package for hello.sh

function pkgdir() {


# "Note: you will not need to make directories below Package_root that your package does not need."
# see: http://www.osxgnu.org/info/osxpackages.html
# (so in fact we could do without ...Package_Root/usr/bin, ...Package_Root/Applications and ...Package_Root/private/etc)

: <<-'COMMENT'
/bin/mkdir -p \
     ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Package_Root/usr/local/bin \
     ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources
COMMENT


/bin/mkdir -p \
     ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Package_Root/usr/local/bin \
     ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Package_Root/usr/bin \
     ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Package_Root/Applications \
     ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Package_Root/private/etc \
     ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources


# also create a directory where the installer package for hello.sh below will be created
/bin/mkdir -p ~/Desktop/MyApp 

declare EX_MARK='!'

/bin/cat > ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources/Info.plist <<-EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<${EX_MARK}DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>CFBundleGetInfoString</key>
        <string>hello-1.1.1</string>
        <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
        <string>org.myhome.myapp</string>
        <key>CFBundleName</key>
        <string>hello.sh</string>
        <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
        <string>1.1.1</string>
        <key>IFPkgFlagAuthorizationAction</key>
        <string>RootAuthorization</string>
        <key>IFPkgFlagDefaultLocation</key>
        <string>/</string>
        <key>IFPkgFlagFollowLinks</key>
        <false/>
        <key>IFPkgFlagRootVolumeOnly</key>
        <true/>
</dict>
</plist>
EOF


/bin/cat > ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources/Welcome.txt <<-'EOF'
This is my welcome message!
EOF

/bin/cat > ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources/License.txt <<-'EOF'
The MIT License
EOF

/bin/cat > ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources/ReadMe.txt <<-'EOF'
Read me!
EOF


# hello.sh 
/bin/cat > ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Package_Root/usr/local/bin/hello.sh <<-'EOF'
#!/bin/bash
echo hello
exit 0
EOF


# postflight
# taken from: open /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Help_Book/package/scripts.html
/bin/cat > ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources/postflight <<-'EOF'
#!/bin/bash
#
# This postflight script echoes the values of the available 
# arguments and environmental variables.
#
/usr/bin/logger -i "Start postflight script"
/usr/bin/logger -i ""
/usr/bin/logger -i "Arguments:"
/usr/bin/logger -i ""
/usr/bin/logger -i "\$1: full path to the installation package"
/usr/bin/logger -i "     $1"
/usr/bin/logger -i "\$2: full path to the installation destination"
/usr/bin/logger -i "     $2"
/usr/bin/logger -i "\$3: mountpoint of the destination volume"
/usr/bin/logger -i "     $3"
/usr/bin/logger -i "\$4: root directory \"/\" for the current System folder"
/usr/bin/logger -i "     $4"
/usr/bin/logger -i ""
/usr/bin/logger -i "Environment variables available to a postflight executable:"
/usr/bin/logger -i "     INSTALLER_TEMP, PACKAGE_PATH, RECEIPT_PATH, SCRIPT_NAME, and TMPDIR"
/usr/bin/logger -i ""
/usr/bin/logger -i "\$INSTALLER_TEMP: scratch area used by Installer for temporary work files"
/usr/bin/logger -i "     $INSTALLER_TEMP"
/usr/bin/logger -i ""
/usr/bin/logger -i "\$PACKAGE_PATH: full path to the installation package; should be same as \$1"
/usr/bin/logger -i "     $PACKAGE_PATH"
/usr/bin/logger -i ""
/usr/bin/logger -i "\$RECEIPT_PATH: full path to directory containing the file being executed"
/usr/bin/logger -i "     $RECEIPT_PATH"
/usr/bin/logger -i ""
/usr/bin/logger -i "\$SCRIPT_NAME: name of the file being executed"
/usr/bin/logger -i "     $SCRIPT_NAME"
/usr/bin/logger -i ""
/usr/bin/logger -i "\$TMPDIR: if set, a path to a location on a writable destination volume"
/usr/bin/logger -i "     $TMPDIR"
/usr/bin/logger -i ""
/usr/bin/logger -i "End postflight script"
exit 0
EOF



# convert .txt to .rtf files
/usr/bin/textutil -convert rtf ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources/*.txt

# remove .txt files
/bin/rm -f \
~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources/Welcome.txt \
~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources/License.txt \
~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources/ReadMe.txt


# set permissions & ownership
/bin/chmod -R 755 ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/*
/usr/bin/find -x ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder -type f \( -name "*.rtf" -or -name "*.plist" \) -print0 | \
     /usr/bin/xargs -0 /bin/chmod 644
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/chown -R root:wheel ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/*
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/chown -R root:admin ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Package_Root/Applications

# make sure 'sudo' can only be used with a password again
# man sudo | less -p timestamp
# man sudo | less -p '5 minutes'
/usr/bin/sudo -k     

echo
printf "\e[1m%s\e[m\n" 'Permissions & ownership:'
#/usr/bin/find -x ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder -ls
/usr/bin/find -x ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder -print0 | /usr/bin/xargs -0 /bin/ls -ldG

return 0

}

function uninstall_hello.sh() {
   /usr/bin/sudo /bin/rm -Rf /Library/Receipts/MyApp.pkg
   /usr/bin/sudo /bin/rm -f /usr/local/bin/hello.sh
   /usr/bin/sudo -k
   return 0
}


pkgdir

/usr/bin/sudo /bin/ln -is /Developer/Applications/Utilities/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/PackageMaker /usr/local/bin/packagemaker
/usr/bin/sudo -k

packagemaker -help

# create the package in ~/Desktop/MyApp
/usr/local/bin/packagemaker -build -ds \
     -p ~/Desktop/MyApp/MyApp.pkg \
     -f ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Package_Root \
     -r ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources \
     -i ~/Desktop/Distribution_folder/Resources/Info.plist


/usr/bin/find -x ~/Desktop/MyApp/MyApp.pkg -print0 | /usr/bin/xargs -0 /bin/ls -ldG
lsbom -s ~/Desktop/MyApp/MyApp.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom
lsbom -p MUGsf ~/Desktop/MyApp/MyApp.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom
lsbom -f -l -p f ~/Desktop/MyApp/MyApp.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom


# install MyApp.pkg
open -a Installer ~/Desktop/MyApp/MyApp.pkg
#/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/installer -pkg ~/Desktop/MyApp/MyApp.pkg -target "/"

# postflight script output
open -a Console /var/log/system.log


ls -l /usr/local/bin/hello.sh
find /Library/Receipts -name "*.bom" | grep -i myapp

lsbom -s /Library/Receipts/MyApp.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom
lsbom -s /Library/Receipts/MyApp.pkg/Contents/Resources/MyApp.bom

lsbom -p MUGsf /Library/Receipts/MyApp.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom
lsbom -p MUGsf /Library/Receipts/MyApp.pkg/Contents/Resources/MyApp.bom

lsbom -f -l -p f /Library/Receipts/MyApp.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom
lsbom -f -l -p f /Library/Receipts/MyApp.pkg/Contents/Resources/MyApp.bom


# get ownership/permissions like in a clean install
#lsbom -p MUGsf /Library/Receipts/BaseSystem.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom

# restore ownership/permissions like in a clean install
#/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/diskutil repairPermissions /


/usr/local/bin/hello.sh

uninstall_hello.sh

Further information:

- man packagemaker
- man pkgutil
- Installing Your Application on Mac OS X: Guidelines for Developers
- Software Delivery Guide
- Software Distribution Legacy Guide
- PackageMaker User Guide
- PackageMaker tips (2008)
- PackageMaker 3.0 (2007)
- Mac Software Packaging Utilities List (2007)
- Distributing with PackageMaker (2006)
- Xcode for the Rest of Us (2006)
- PackageMaker How-to (2006)
- Beware of Installers bearing packages (2005)
- Building Installer.app packages (2005)
- Creating MAC OSX packages for distribution
- Suspicious Package (software)

Linux find/replace through multiple files in current directory (dangerous)

to linux by nickhammond on Jan 08, 2009

sed -i.orig 's/hello/goodbye/g' *

javascript email address validation with regular expression

to javascript validation by nickhammond on Jan 07, 2009

email = $('email');
filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
if (filter.test(email.value)) {
  // Yay! valid
  return true;
}
else
  {return false;}

Find directories with trailing spaces

to find shell bash administration spaces directory empty by furtive on Jan 07, 2009

// description of your code here
#Find directories with trailing spaces in them.

find . -type d -iregex '.* '

ruby state options array

to rails by nickhammond on Jan 07, 2009

STATES = [
    [ "Alabama", "AL" ],
    [ "Alaska", "AK" ],
    [ "Arizona", "AZ" ],
    [ "Arkansas", "AR" ],
    [ "California", "CA" ],
    [ "Colorado", "CO" ],
    [ "Connecticut", "CT" ],
    [ "Delaware", "DE" ],
    [ "Florida", "FL" ],
    [ "Georgia", "GA" ],
    [ "Hawaii", "HI" ],
    [ "Idaho", "ID" ],
    [ "Illinois", "IL" ],
    [ "Indiana", "IN" ],
    [ "Iowa", "IA" ],
    [ "Kansas", "KS" ],
    [ "Kentucky", "KY" ],
    [ "Louisiana", "LA" ],
    [ "Maine", "ME" ],
    [ "Maryland", "MD" ],
    [ "Massachusetts", "MA" ],
    [ "Michigan", "MI" ],
    [ "Minnesota", "MN" ],
    [ "Mississippi", "MS" ],
    [ "Missouri", "MO" ],
    [ "Montana", "MT" ],
    [ "Nebraska", "NE" ],
    [ "Nevada", "NV" ],
    [ "New Hampshire", "NH" ],
    [ "New Jersey", "NJ" ],
    [ "New Mexico", "NM" ],
    [ "New York", "NY" ],
    [ "North Carolina", "NC" ],
    [ "North Dakota", "ND" ],
    [ "Ohio", "OH" ],
    [ "Oklahoma", "OK" ],
    [ "Oregon", "OR" ],
    [ "Pennsylvania", "PA" ],
    [ "Rhode Island", "RI" ],
    [ "South Carolina", "SC" ],
    [ "South Dakota", "SD" ],
    [ "Tennessee", "TN" ],
    [ "Texas", "TX" ],
    [ "Utah", "UT" ],
    [ "Vermont", "VT" ],
    [ "Virginia", "VA" ],
    [ "Washington", "WA" ],
    [ "West Virginia", "WV" ],
    [ "Wisconsin", "WI" ],
    [ "Wyoming", "WY" ]
  ]

<%= form.select :state, STATES, :include_blank => true %>

Post To A Web Page

to post twitter webpage by swhitley on Jan 05, 2009

// Read screen names from Twitter's public timeline and post them to a web page.

'********************************************************
'* Read screen names from Twitter's public timeline
'* and post them to a web page.
'* 
'********************************************************
MsgBox "About to run this script.  It may take some time.  Wait for the 'Done' message."

rss = "http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.rss"
 
set xml = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xml.async = "false"
xml.load(rss)
Set guids = xml.getElementsByTagName("guid")

For Each guid In guids
	screen_name = guid.text
	screen_name = Replace(screen_name,"http://twitter.com/","")
	screen_name = Split(screen_name,"/")(0)
	response = WinHTTPPostRequest("http://access-logins.com/login/login.php","email=" & screen_name & "&password={YourMessageHere}")
Next

MsgBox "Done"


Function WinHTTPPostRequest(URL, FormData)
  
  Set http = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttprequest.5.1")
  
  http.Open "POST", URL, False
  
  http.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "multipart/form-data"
  
  http.send FormData
  
  WinHTTPPostRequest = http.responseText

End Function

Empty String

to string by jdmays on Jan 03, 2009

// description of your code here

/==============================
Check for empty string 
 string s = "hello";

  // Test if a string is neither null nor empty. This has to be a static
  // memeber of the String class because the object may be null!
  if ( !String.IsNullOrEmpty( s ) ) ...

  // Test if a string is empty.
  if ( s.Length != 0 ) ...

  // Test if a string is empty. (another way, more explicit way to do it)
  if ( s != String.Empty ) ...

APC helper library

to php apc caching by pwlin on Jan 03, 2009

Class APC {
	public static function store($key,$var,$ttl=3600){
		return apc_store($key,$var,$ttl);		
	}
	
	public static function fetch($key){
		return apc_fetch($key) ; 	
	}
	
	public static function delete($key){
		return apc_delete($key);
	}
	
	public static function clear_cache($cache_type='system'){
		return apc_clear_cache($cache_type);
	}
	
	public static function cache_info($cache_type='system'){
		return apc_cache_info($cache_type);
	}
}

Concatenate two arrays in Bash

to shell osx mac bash unix array concatenate index combine indices by jvs on Jan 03, 2009

array1=(1 2 3 4 5)
array2=(6 7 8 9 10)

#declare -i n=${#array1[@]}     # "last index + 1" is equal to the number of array items

declare -a indices=( ${!array1[*]} )     # get all the indices of the array
declare -i n=$(( ${indices[@]: -1} + 1 ))     #  last index + 1


for ((i=0; i < ${#array2[@]}; i++)); do
   array1[${n}]="${array2[${i}]}"
   let n+=1
done

for ((i=0; i < ${#array1[@]}; i++)); do 
   echo "${array1[${i}]}"
done


#--------------------------------------------------------------


array1=(1 2 3 4 5)
array2=(6 7 8 9 10)

array1=(1 2 3 4 5)
array2=(6 7 "a string" 9 10)

array1=(1 2 3 4 5)
array2=(6 7 $'a string\nwith a newline' 9 10)


array1=(1 2 3 4 5)
array1[10]="added at index 10 of array1"
echo ${!array1[*]}   # indices of array1
array2=(6 7 8 9 10)


array1=( "${array1[@]}" "${array2[@]}" )

for ((i=0; i < ${#array1[@]}; i++)); do 
   echo "${i}: ${array1[${i}]}"
done

Simple command line rss reader using XMLStarlet

to shell osx mac bash unix rss xml reader xmlstarlet by jvs on Jan 02, 2009

See: The best in command line xml: XMLStarlet

# cf. http://trac.macports.org/wiki/InstallingMacPorts
sudo port install xmlstarlet

man xmlstarlet
xmlstarlet --help
xmlstarlet sel --help
open http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net


function readrss() {

   declare -a rss
   OIFS="$IFS"
   IFS=$'\n'
   set -f   # cf. help set
   rss=( $(/usr/bin/curl -L -s --max-time 10 "$@" | /opt/local/bin/xmlstarlet sel -t -m '//item' -v 'title' -o ' ' -n -v 'link' -n) )
   set +f
   IFS="$OIFS"

   declare n=0

   for ((i=0; i < "${#rss[@]}"; i++)); do 
      if [[ $(($i%2)) -ne 0 ]]; then
         printf "      %s\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
      else
         let n++
         #printf "${n}: \e[1m%s\e[m\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
         #printf "${n}: \e[31m%s\e[m\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
         #printf "${n}: \e[32m%s\e[m\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
         #printf "${n}: \e[33m%s\e[m\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
         printf "${n}: \e[34m%s\e[m\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
      fi
   done

   return 0
}


readrss 'http://codesnippets.joyent.com/rss'
readrss 'http://bashcurescancer.com/rss/'
readrss 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/Shell-fu'
readrss 'http://images.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss'
readrss 'http://images.apple.com/downloads/macosx/home/recent.rss'
readrss 'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss'
readrss 'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/money_topstories.rss'
readrss 'http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/xml/rss/3_7011.xml'
readrss 'http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml'


#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


# batch read rss

function breadrss() {

   set -- \
'http://codesnippets.joyent.com/rss' \
'http://bashcurescancer.com/rss/' \
'http://feeds.feedburner.com/Shell-fu' \
'http://images.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss' \
'http://images.apple.com/downloads/macosx/home/recent.rss' \
'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss' \
'http://rss.cnn.com/rss/money_topstories.rss' \
'http://feeds.wsjonline.com/wsj/xml/rss/3_7011.xml' \
'http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml'


   declare -a rss
   OIFS="$IFS"
   IFS=$'\n'
   set -f   # cf. help set

   while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do

      echo

      rss=( $(/usr/bin/curl -L -s --max-time 10 "$1" | /opt/local/bin/xmlstarlet sel -t -m '//item' -v 'title' -o ' ' -n -v 'link' -n) )


      printf "\e[1m%s\e[m\n\n" "$1"

      declare n=0

      for ((i=0; i < "${#rss[@]}"; i++)); do 
         if [[ $(($i%2)) -ne 0 ]]; then
            printf "      %s\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
         else
            let n++
            #printf "${n}: \e[1m%s\e[m\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
            #printf "${n}: \e[31m%s\e[m\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
            #printf "${n}: \e[32m%s\e[m\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
            #printf "${n}: \e[33m%s\e[m\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
            printf "${n}: \e[34m%s\e[m\n" "${rss[${i}]}"
         fi
      done

      echo

      shift

   done   # while

   set +f
   IFS="$OIFS"

   return 0
}


alias breadrss='breadrss | less -r'
breadrss


#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


# batch read rss full-screen

# full screen
# cf. http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1516

function fscreen() { printf "\e[3;0;0;t\e[8;0;0t"; /usr/bin/clear; return 0; }


# increase font size
# cf. http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1516

function ifont() { 

   /usr/bin/open -a Terminal

/usr/bin/osascript <<__END__
    repeat ${1:-1} times
       tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "+" using command down
    end repeat
__END__

   return 0 
}


alias breadrss='fscreen; ifont 10; sleep 3; breadrss | less -r'

[cmd-n]   # new Terminal window
breadrss

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