Dockutil Woes in Swift

My question may have a ridiculously easy answer, but here goes. We have a lab environment with a teacher who works with grades Pre-K, K, 1, 2, 3.

We have user accounts (standard user accounts in AD for these grades).

The teacher wanted to have a specific dock configuration for these standard user accounts. After looking at a bunch of options I went with Dockutil.

A friend of mine with considerably more scripting experience helped me create a single script that used case to configure the dock for those specific user accounts.

The trouble is that script was made before Dockutil was rebuilt using Swift. How do I adapt the script to work now without Python??

The script is below:

#!/bin/bash



#We need to wait for the dock to actually start

until [[ $(pgrep Dock) ]]; do

    wait

done



#Get the current logged in user that we'll be modifying

if [ ! -z "$3" ]; then

	user=$3

else

	user=$(python -c 'from SystemConfiguration import SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser; import sys; username = (SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser(None, None, None) or [None])[0]; username = [username,""][username in [u"loginwindow", None, u""]]; sys.stdout.write(username + "\\n");')

fi



#Set variables

du="/usr/local/bin/dockutil"

userHome="/Users/$user"

networkHome="smb://server.com/Students$/$user"



#Function for applying dock configuration

createBaseDock()

{

    #Remove all items for logged in user

    $du --remove all --no-restart $userHome

    

    #Adding base items to the dock    

    $du --add '/Applications/Google Chrome.app' --position 1 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/Safari.app'  --position 2 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/Comic Life 3.app' --position 3 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/The Print Shop 4.app' --position 4 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/KID PIX.app' --position 5 --no-restart $userHome

}



#Function for finishing base dock

finishBaseDock()

{

    #Add local downloads

    $du --add '~/Downloads' --section others --position last --no-restart $userHome



    killall Dock

}



    case $user in

        p|k)

            echo "p or k found"

            createBaseDock

            finishBaseDock

            ;; 

        1)

            echo "1 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

        2)

            echo "2 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

        3)

            echo "3 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome

            $du --add '/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2020/Adobe Photoshop 2020.app' --position 7 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

    esac



exit 0

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Use the following to get the logged in user. The python method was tried and true for many years and this is the modern replacement.

https://scriptingosx.com/2020/02/getting-the-current-user-in-macos-update/

user=$( scutil <<< "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | awk '/Name && ! /loginwindow/ { print $3 }' )

I figured it was probably something simple, to someone (not me) who is fluent in scripting. Thank you! :-)

Below is the revised script with the change you suggested, look right?

#!/bin/bash



#We need to wait for the dock to actually start

until [[ $(pgrep Dock) ]]; do

    wait

done



#Get the current logged in user that we'll be modifying

if [ ! -z "$3" ]; then

	user=$3

else

	user=$( scutil <<< "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | awk '/Name  && ! /loginwindow/ { print $3 }' )

fi



#Set variables

du="/usr/local/bin/dockutil"

userHome="/Users/$user"

networkHome="smb://server.com/Students$/$user"



#Function for applying dock configuration

createBaseDock()

{

    #Remove all items for logged in user

    $du --remove all --no-restart $userHome

    

    #Adding base items to the dock    

    $du --add '/Applications/Google Chrome.app' --position 1 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/Safari.app'  --position 2 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/Comic Life 3.app' --position 3 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/The Print Shop 4.app' --position 4 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/KID PIX.app' --position 5 --no-restart $userHome

}



#Function for finishing base dock

finishBaseDock()

{

    #Add local downloads

    $du --add '~/Downloads' --section others --position last --no-restart $userHome



    killall Dock

}



    case $user in

        p|k)

            echo "p or k found"

            createBaseDock

            finishBaseDock

            ;; 

        1)

            echo "1 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

        2)

            echo "2 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

        3)

            echo "3 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome

            $du --add '/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2020/Adobe Photoshop 2020.app' --position 7 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

    esac



exit 0

I figured it was probably something simple, to someone (not me) who is fluent in scripting. Thank you! :-)

Below is the revised script with the change you suggested, look right?

#!/bin/bash



#We need to wait for the dock to actually start

until [[ $(pgrep Dock) ]]; do

    wait

done



#Get the current logged in user that we'll be modifying

if [ ! -z "$3" ]; then

	user=$3

else

	user=$( scutil <<< "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | awk '/Name  && ! /loginwindow/ { print $3 }' )

fi



#Set variables

du="/usr/local/bin/dockutil"

userHome="/Users/$user"

networkHome="smb://server.com/Students$/$user"



#Function for applying dock configuration

createBaseDock()

{

    #Remove all items for logged in user

    $du --remove all --no-restart $userHome

    

    #Adding base items to the dock    

    $du --add '/Applications/Google Chrome.app' --position 1 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/Safari.app'  --position 2 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/Comic Life 3.app' --position 3 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/The Print Shop 4.app' --position 4 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/KID PIX.app' --position 5 --no-restart $userHome

}



#Function for finishing base dock

finishBaseDock()

{

    #Add local downloads

    $du --add '~/Downloads' --section others --position last --no-restart $userHome



    killall Dock

}



    case $user in

        p|k)

            echo "p or k found"

            createBaseDock

            finishBaseDock

            ;; 

        1)

            echo "1 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

        2)

            echo "2 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

        3)

            echo "3 found"

            createBaseDock

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome

            $du --add '/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2020/Adobe Photoshop 2020.app' --position 7 --no-restart $userHome

            finishBaseDock

            ;;

    esac



exit 0

I made some changes to your script because repetition is discouraged in coding (DRY: Dont Repeat Yourself).

In your `case` statement, you were running a `createBaseDock` and a `finishBaseDock` with each case but you can just run the create before the case check and the finish one after.

#!/bin/bash



#We need to wait for the dock to actually start

until [[ $(pgrep Dock) ]]; do

    wait

done



#Get the current logged in user that we'll be modifying

if [ ! -z "$3" ]; then

	user=$3

else

	user=$( scutil <<< "show State:/Users/ConsoleUser" | awk '/Name  && ! /loginwindow/ { print $3 }' )

fi



#Set variables

du="/usr/local/bin/dockutil"

userHome="/Users/$user"

networkHome="smb://server.com/Students$/$user"



#Function for applying dock configuration

createBaseDock()

{

    #Remove all items for logged in user

    $du --remove all --no-restart $userHome

    

    #Adding base items to the dock    

    $du --add '/Applications/Google Chrome.app' --position 1 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/Safari.app'  --position 2 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/Comic Life 3.app' --position 3 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/The Print Shop 4.app' --position 4 --no-restart $userHome

    $du --add '/Applications/KID PIX.app' --position 5 --no-restart $userHome

}



#Function for finishing base dock

finishBaseDock()

{

    #Add local downloads

    $du --add '~/Downloads' --section others --position last --no-restart $userHome



    killall Dock

}



createBaseDock



    case $user in

        p|k) echo "p or k found";; 

        1)  echo "1 found"

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome;;

        2)  echo "2 found"

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome;;

        3)  echo "3 found"

            $du --add '/System/Applications/Photo Booth.app' --position 6 --no-restart $userHome

            $du --add '/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2020/Adobe Photoshop 2020.app' --position 7 --no-restart $userHome;;

    esac



finishBaseDock



exit 0

@Tangentism THANK YOU!!!! Works great!!!!

@cbrewer THANK YOU! Just wanted to be sure an acknowledge that your solution worked and to of course thank you :-)

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