I'm trying to find a way to batch apply terminal commands to a selection of plugins at once in terminal.

I usually use these commands:
sudo codesign -f -s -
sudo codesign -fs -
sudo chmod u+x
Sudo xattr -cr
sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine
sudo chmod +x

Is there a way I can have it run through all of those commands on multiple files at once in terminal? Or is there an app that I can do that with?

 

https://developer.apple.com/library...ellScripting/shell_scripts/shell_scripts.html

This is the ultimate source for this job.

 

In bash:

for f in file1 file2 file3 file4 file5
do
sudo codesign -f -s - "$f"
sudo codesign -fs - "$f"
sudo chmod u+x "$f"
sudo xattr -cr "$f"
sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine "$f"
sudo chmod +x "$f"
done

Before running that, you might want to edit your sudo permissions to avoid entering your root password by allowing codesign, chmod, xattr to run as sudo root from your user account (not recommended from the security perspective so better remove them when you're done):
sudo visudo

 

Last edited: Nov 20, 2021

The best way IMO is to run the script as root (using sudo) and then leave the sudos out of the script, so basically something like this:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

for f in file1 file2 file3 file4 file5
do
    codesign -f -s - "$f"
    codesign -fs - "$f"
    chmod u+x "$f"
    xattr -cr "$f"
   xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine "$f"
   chmod +x "$f"
done

Save this to a convenient location, say ~/scripts/signplugs.sh (~ means home directory)

Then make it executable with

Code:

chmod +x ~/scripts/signplugs.sh

Then run it using sudo

Code:

sudo ~/scripts/signplugs.sh

You might want to add arguments for file1, file2... and so on, and perhaps add it to your PATH. Feel free to ask if you need help.

 

doesn't batchmod (the app) handle this?

It seems like it would... but man, Im just learning. Take care everyone, have a great night!

 

If you need to run something on a larger number of files, using 'find' on Mac OS, BSD and Linux is the easiest option. If you're on Windows, or if you want a 'find' alternative that can execute tasks in parallel, or an alternative that works on all platforms, grab sharkdp's 'fd'. fd's syntax is inspired by 'find' and has some advanced features.