On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:10:56PM -0600, Cliff Scott wrote:
>
> Sounds very useful, however I am very much a newbie regarding stuff at the
> command level on the Mac.
I'm sorry, should have thought about that.
> I assume from what you wrote that the file that I make is named
> linktool.sh. Did that. The "sh" extension I understand means it is a
> script.
The name of the executable doesn't matter as long as it is executable.
I named my copy `linktool' without `.sh'.
> Ok, but where do I find rc.local
/etc/rc.local probably doesn't exist yet (see below).
> and what is meant by absolute path?
``A full path or absolute path is a path that points to the same
location on one file system regardless of the working directory
or combined paths. It is usually written in reference to a root
directory.''
Examples of absolute paths:
/
/etc
/Users/cliff
/Directory with Spaces/foo/bar
Examples of relative paths:
cliff
foo/bar
The following steps should get you going (`$' = shell prompt):
Let's test directories first:
$ ls -d /usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin
$ ls -d /Applications/VirtualBox.app
/Applications/VirtualBox.app
both commands shouldn't produce any errors.
Next, download linktool.sh as linktool:
$ sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/linktool http://smokva.net/src/linktool.sh
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left
Speed
100 7462 100 7462 0 0 30054 0 --:--:-- --:--:--
--:--:-- 36578
A quick sanity check before executing:
$ shasum /usr/local/bin/linktool
d2eaf56d840184fc23a149153fc00fff0eff35f1 /usr/local/bin/linktool
if the checksum matches, good. If not, something went wrong during the
download or I modified the source in the meantime. :)
Let's make linktool executable
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/linktool
and add the one line to /etc/rc.local (that probably doesn't exist yet)
$ sudo sh -c 'echo /usr/local/bin/linktool setup
/Applications/VirtualBox.app >>/etc/rc.local'
Finally, reboot and you're done.
HTH and let me know if you have any other questions.
Petar Bogdanovic
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