Mathias Bynens has a bash script that he uses to set many of the system preferences to match his desired. While I don't know that I would go that far, and definitely not all of the settings are to my taste, this script shows how to configure a why range of settings on your Mac which may well be of interest to Keyboard Maestro users (via mjtsai)
While it is nice to have all of your preferences set in one script, ==it can also be very dangerous if you don't understand what each setting does.==
There is a lot of debate about this script at Sensible macOS Defaults | Hacker News.
For example:
###############################################################################
# General UI/UX #
###############################################################################
# Set computer name (as done via System Preferences → Sharing)
#sudo scutil --set ComputerName "0x6D746873"
#sudo scutil --set HostName "0x6D746873"
#sudo scutil --set LocalHostName "0x6D746873"
#sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server NetBIOSName -string "0x6D746873"
I don't understand how to use this section of preferences.
What does the hex (?) number in quotes refer to?
Where do I put the ComputerName, for example, that I want to use?
Then I noticed that all of these lines are just comments, since they start with a #
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Before running a script like this, I would want to backup my current preferences, so I could easily and quickly restore them if something goes wrong.
So, ==I WOULD NOT run this entire file as one script==.
It is more useful to look through it and find specific preferences you might want to set, and then put those in a separate script file.
Of course, YMMV. Those of you that are bash gurus will likely find this more useful.
Here is another list of well-documented Bash commands to set preferences for the macOS and a number of apps:
Awsome macOS Command Line Shell Commands -- GitHub - herrbischoff
I have NOT carefully reviewed nor tested any of these commands.
I found it here:
Michael Tsai - Blog - Awesome macOS Command Line
But it does look very interesting.
Hey Guys,
Good stuff; thanks!
-Chris
This is great! Looking forward to diving in