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How to Download iOS Simulator (Xcode) in Command Line and Install it

For faster connection speed and more flexibility.

Steps

  1. Start Xcode in command line by running this in commandline /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
  2. Start downloading of the simulator
  3. Cancel it. YES CANCEL IT!
  4. You will get a message like this:
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calvin2021y / _xcode.sh
Created July 3, 2021 05:47 — forked from dcondrey/_xcode.sh
(macOS Big Sur) Install Xcode from terminal, setup local development with Apache and PHP 8, and other configurations
# Install Command-line tools as dependency for Homebrew
xcode-select --install # Sets the development directory path to /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools
# Install Homebrew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
# Install Mas (command-line interface for Mac App Store)
brew install mas
# Search for Xcode showing only the first 5 results
mas search xcode | head -5