Re: Any way to get Software Update to run in the background at a specified time of the day?

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 (Richard Maine) wrote:

> Jamie Kahn Genet <lists@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > - read man softwareupdate
> 
> > I'm not sure that sounds safe. I really just want to be notified [...]
> 
> I haven't done it, but from reading the man page, it sounds like
> 
>   softwareupdate --list
> 
> can tell you if there are any updates available

Exactly. Wrapped in AS, it could be something along these lines:

set theResult to do shell script "/usr/sbin/softwareupdate -l"
if theResult contains "Software Update found the following new or 
updated software:" -- updates are available
  -- do somethign useful
elseif theResult contains "recommended" -- one or more recommended 
updates are avaliable
  -- do somethign useful
end

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