[Casper] User-based shell scripts after self-service installation

[Jeremy Matthews]

Ah - you know what, I was focusing on using the tilde too much.
It makes total sense just to grep around or whoami and then execute  
based on that.

Thanks,
j

On Aug 14, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Miles Leacy IV wrote:

> The script will do what you tell it to.  If you tell it to operate  
> in user space, it will.
>
> I typically use a "for" command when I need to apply the same  
> command to every item in a particular directory, such as /Users.   
> For example:
>
> for i in $( ls /Users ) ; do defaults write /Users/$i/Library/ 
> Preferences/com.manufacturer.product key type value ; done
>
> Pardon me if my syntax isn't perfect, I don't have my script library  
> or a Mac OS X box at hand at the moment, but this is the general  
> idea.  You can grep out stuff you don't want, or use if then else  
> statements to avoid putting your files in places such as /Users/ 
> Shared.
>