Automating softwareupdate

[Cody]

I have to softwareupdate a bunch of computers here, and I wrote this script to try to automate the process (i.e. we don’t have to run around & come back to each office to click next/restart/etc.). Feel free to try it out and give me feedback. Also, someone let me know if any dialogs pop up. One of the things that drove me nuts about doing this manually was coming back to an office to restart a machine and seeing the quicktime update prompting for a serial. Unfortunately, I haven’t got any more machines that need that update that I can test this on – I want to know if the -q option properly gets rid of that.

–Open this script in a new Script Editor window.

–authenticate (thanks, jon)
repeat
try
do shell script “sudo -k” –try to clear any previous authentication
end try
try
set sudo_password to text returned of (display dialog “Enter Administrator Password:” default answer “”)
do shell script “sudo -v” password sudo_password with administrator privileges
exit repeat
on error the_error number the_num
if the_num = -128 then return
display dialog the_error buttons {“Cancel”, “Try Again”} default button 2 with icon 2
end try
end repeat

–check for updates:
set restart to false
do shell script “softwareupdate -d” password sudo_password with administrator privileges
set restlist to “”
try
set restlist to do shell script “softwareupdate -l | grep restart” password sudo_password with administrator privileges
end try
if restlist is not “” then set restart to true

set theresult to do shell script “softwareupdate -q -i -a” password sudo_password with administrator privileges
if restart then tell application “Finder” to restart

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NOTE: THE PASSWORD ENTRY IN THIS IS NOT MASKED