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If you’re not on the geekier spectrum of tech savvy, then using macapps.link either requires some faith, or trust in the creator of the macappslink service, or simply avoiding this entirely.

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If you see anything alarming to you personally, well, definitely don’t run the full script! Just install the apps manually and skip this whole thing.

If what you see looks good to you, you can go ahead and run the full command unmodified as provided from macapps.link service. If we modify the command as so by removing the pipe to sh from the end, and the -s silent flag from curl from the beginning, we’ll print out the bash script without executing it:Įxecuting that modified command into the Terminal will dump the entire bash script, so now you just need to maximize that Terminal window and take a look at what the bash script is doing, which is essentially the following print out a fancy ASCII art banner, checking to see if the apps’ already installed, checking the apps version, downloading the app installer/pkg files directly from the developers into a temporary directory, extracting and installing the app via dmg/zip/tarball, reporting progress and success, then removing the temporary files that were downloaded. If you’re technically inclined, the simplest way to verify this is to look at what the script is doing, by looking at the install bash script itself.įor example, let’s say the command to run as provided is this: You are wise to be cautious when running any commands into your Terminal, particularly those that involve installing applications onto your Mac, by using a remotely retrieved and locally executed bash script! Potentially high risk activity, right? So, how do you trust but verify in such a situation? * How do I know I can trust this and what is being installed?

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This can potentially save a bunch of time when setting up a new Mac, whether for yourself, or for deployments across a handful of Macs when you don’t have other device management software in place.

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You’ll see progress for each download and install, reporting if the app is installed successfully, if the app can’t be updated for whatever reason, if the app was skipped because it is already up to date, and when it’s all finished.

Ready to batch download and install a bunch of Mac apps of your choosing, hands off? Here’s what to do:

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How to Bulk Download & Install Mac Apps from the Terminal One method is offered further below if you’re curious*.

If you’re like me and you’re the default cautious type, you might want to glance at the script before executing it on your Mac. Using macapps.link requires trust to a free third party service, because you are issuing a remotely executed terminal script that is interacting with your Mac to install software. Easy peasy.Ĭaution: This is aimed at advanced users who are comfortable with the command line.

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Basically you’ll be automating the download and installation of a ton of popular Mac apps.įor example, let’s say you have a brand new MacBook Pro for work, and you want to install your typical workflow setup of Chrome, Firefox, Chrome Canary, Skitch, Fantastical, GitHub, IntelliJ, BBEdit, Sketch, Docker, The Unarchiver, CyberDuck, iTerm2, iStats Menu, BarTender, VLC, Steam (I swear it’s for work boss!), Atom, Slack, Discord, Zoom, and Skype… that’s a ton of different websites and developers to go to manually to install apps from right? With the MacApps.link service, you simply select all those apps from their list, get the install link, toss it into the Terminal, and let run the command to completion. And here is where the MacApps.link service comes in handy, by bundling a bunch of different Mac applications of your choosing together into a single executable command string that you can toss into the Terminal, then go about your business while the apps are downloaded and installed onto the Mac.