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Softwareupdate -l Responses

  • February 12, 2020
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Hello all! Does anyone know how I can find a complete list of all the possible responses from Software update when the

softwareupdate -l

command is run? Im trying to include all responses in a script with "if then" statements and need to find a list of all possible responses. So far I have:
"No new software available"
"Installing updates."

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sdagley
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  • Jamf Heroes
  • February 13, 2020

@sanbornc I don't know of a complete list of just the responses to softwareupdate -l, but if you run strings /usr/sbin/softwareupdate you'll find pretty much any message the softwareupdate command will display and then some.