But when it comes to macos software updates, the mac app store is really just a front end for a unix command, and fans of the mac's terminal can actually use this command to update their mac.. I just learned that macos has a softwareupdate command, and further learned that it has a --ignore option, which may or may not let you ignore useless updates.for example, my mac prompts me daily to update keynote, numbers, and pages, which i rarely (rarely!) use, so i don’t want to bother updating them.. With my first example, if the software update takes a long-ish time, the timeout for sudo asking for a password will expire, and the sudo reboot will sit waiting for your password..
To see what updates are available for a mac, or to install a software update from the terminal of mac os x, amongst many other options including how to ignore particular updates, you’ll use the ‘softwareupdate’ command line tool as we’ll instruct below.. Commonly we configure mac with homebrew, iterm2 and oh my zsh for installation of command line and other packages. there are existing commands for macos x for the works we perform via gui. utilizing macos x command line software update & disk utility makes performing day to day computer management works easy, fast, informative.. Softwareupdate. check for new and updated versions of your software based on information about your computer and current software. syntax softwareupdate command [args...]options -l--list list all available updates.-d --download-i --install each update specified by args is downloaded, unarchived, and installed. this command requires root..
