Open Terminal on the Mac via Spotlight by hitting Command+Spacebar and typing “Terminal” followed by the Return key, or launch Terminal from the /Applications/Utilities/ folder.Paste the copied command string into the Terminal and then hit return to begin downloading and installing the Mac apps.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. 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.
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? #Download slack mac m1 software 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 what you see looks good to you, you can go ahead and run the full command unmodified as provided from macapps.link service. 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 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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