Scripts and app to help create and organize commands in Apple Remote Desktop

This script assume a couple of things:

• you have Apple Remote Installed on the local machine
• you run this script in the user account that uses Apple Remote Desktop
• for clarity and to avoid name collisions, all folders and commands you create should have unique names otherwise you can receive errors when trying to delete or move folders or commands
• don't change anything in ARDplist.rb unless you know what you're doing
• it assumes you already have a file at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.RemoteDesktop/Data/Library/Application Support/Remote Desktop/Presets/UnixCommandTask.plist, if you don’t open Apple Remote Desktop, click on “Unix” and save anything as your first command .. this auto generates the UnixCommandTask.plist file
• Make sure your script to execute the commands and the ARDplist.rb are in the same directory
• Make sure at the top of your file you type: require './ARDplist' ... see ARDplist_usage for examples

Usage:

You must require 'ARDplist.rb' in your script before calling it.

After you require ARDplist.rb in your ruby file, you can run the command below to see all your options.

puts ARD.options

This will return:

• create_command
• create_folder
• create_spacer
• delete_command
• delete_folder
• folder_index
• list_folders
• move_command
• move_folder
• options
• rename_command
• rename_folder

Examples: ..

See this blog post

Print existing commands and folders:

puts.ARD.list_folders

returns any existing single commands or folders in ARD

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Create a new empty folder

argument is ("new_folder_name")

ARD.create_empty_folder("folder1")

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Get the physical location of a folder:

puts ARD.folder_index("folder1")

returns the physical position of folder "folder1" as an integer

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Move existing command into folder:

arguments are ("commandname", "folder to move to")

ARD.move_command("Test Command", "Folder 1")

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Move position of existing folder:

arguments are (original_position, new_position)

ARD.move_folder(1, 0)

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Rename an existing folder:

arguments are (oldname, newname)

ARD.rename_folder("folder1", "folder0")

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Rename an existing command:

arguments are (folder_name, orignialcommandname, newcommandname)

ARD.rename_command("folder0", "command2", "command1")

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Create a visual space by using ----

arguments is physical location you want to create the spacer

ARD.create_spacer(1)

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Rename an existing folder:

arguments are (oldname, newname)

ARD.rename_folder("folder1", "folder0")

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Rename a command:

arguments are ("folder_name", "orignialcommandname", "newcommandname")

ARD.rename_command("Admin Commands", "list of users", "all users")

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Delete a command:

arguments are ("folder_name", "command_name")

ARD.delete_command("folder2", "command1")

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Delete an existing folder

arguments are ("foldername")

ARD.delete_folder("folder2")