Caffeinate on startup

!caffeinate-mac-on-startup.md

Caffeinate Mac on startup

Keep your mac awake (indefinitely) with caffeinate! Learn more about launchd.

Copy plist file to the user agents directory:

cp local.startup.caffeinate.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/

Load the job:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/local.startup.caffeinate.plist

Verify the job has started:

# List of loaded jobs
launchctl list | grep local.startup.caffeinate

# Process status
ps -ef | grep caffeinate

local.startup.caffeinate.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
		<key>Label</key>
		<string>local.startup.caffeinate</string>
		<key>Program</key>
		<string>/usr/bin/caffeinate</string>
		<key>RunAtLoad</key>
		<true/>
	</dict>
</plist>