Script To Install Multiple PKGs

You can use the installer command and loop through your packages.

sudo installer -pkg <path to package> -target <path to target, normally />

One of those lines for each package.

you could also use installpkg here

install in /usr/local

/usr/local/installpkg  /path/to/directory/of/packages/*

Kind of basic and crude, but something like this:

#!/bin/bash

while read PKG; do
    installer -pkg "$PKG" -tgt / -verbose
done < <(find /path/to/packages -name *.pkg -o -name *.mpkg)

That should locate any installers (.pkg or .mpkg files) in the directory and run each one thru command line installer. The above does no error checking, so if any of them fail to install, I'm not sure how it would be reported. Hence why I threw in the -verbose flag so hopefully you'd get some output to tell you that.

You'd need to specify the /path/to/packages in the script, either hardcoded, or as a variable, or even passed as a parameter to the script, like in $4

@mm2270 Good point. Just assumed logging would go to jamf log or system log, better to not assume. Also kudos on app-packager,it's one of my latest go to tools

Larry

@LSinNY Actually, I wasn't referring to your post, I was referring to mine :) My script doesn't do any error checking as I literally just threw it together before I posted.
I haven't actually looked at installpkg, mostly because I wasn't aware it was there. Thanks for pointing it out. I plan on taking a look at it at some point. And glad you're making use of App Packager!

Thank you very much for your input all.

For those who still need this, I have revised the code:

#!/bin/bash
for pkg in $( ls /path/to/*.pkg ); do
    echo "Installing $pkg"
    installer -pkg $pkg -target /
done