Re: delete the entry from loginwindow.plist using command
site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Macnetworkprog@lists.apple.com Sunil Do man defaults in a terminal window to see: ---snip--- defaults [-currentHost | -host hostname] delete [domain [key]] ---sniip-- Ed On Jan 29, 2008, at 5:56 AM, sunil prajapati wrote: Hi Guys, The command is: Waiting for helpful reply. -- Thanks & Regards, _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Macnetworkprog mailing list (Macnetworkprog@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/macnetworkprog/site_archiver%40lists.... I successfully entered my application in loginwindow.plist through command line. But unable to delete that entry. How to remove the my added entry from loginwindow.plist from command line or shells script?
From net I found one script which remove the entry from loginwindow.plist,but it remove whole entries from the plist. #!/bin/sh
theApp="your app" nl=`echo "x" | tr 'x' '\34'` # what is the proper way to set ascii to a variable? aaa=`defaults read loginwindow AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary` bbb=`echo -n "$aaa" | sed "s/^[()]$//;s/},/}$nl/" | tr '\n\34' '\00 \n'| grep -va "$theApp" | tr '\n\00' ',\n' | sed 's/^,$//'` defaults write loginwindow AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary "($bbb)" Sunil Prajapati Software Developer in Macintosh _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Macnetworkprog mailing list (Macnetworkprog@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/macnetworkprog/evw% 40thermeon.com This email sent to evw@thermeon.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com
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Ed Wastrodowski