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March 3, 2016 07:24
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A simple shell script for removing OS X packages installed with .pkg files
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#!/bin/sh | |
[ -n "$1" ] || { echo "usage: rmpkg package-id"; exit 1; } | |
pkgutil --pkg-info $1 || exit $? | |
printf "\n" | |
PKGVOL=`pkgutil --pkg-info $1 | sed -n 's/volume: \(.*\)/\1/p'` | |
PKGLOC=`pkgutil --pkg-info $1 | sed -n 's/location: \(.*\)/\1/p'` | |
pkgutil --only-files --files $1 | tr '\r\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -n 1 printf "%s%s/%s\n" $PKGVOL $PKGLOC | |
printf "\n" | |
read -p "Delete files? [Yes/No]: " ANSWER | |
printf "\n" | |
if [ $ANSWER = "Yes" ]; then | |
pkgutil --only-files --files $1 | tr '\r\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -n 1 -I % sudo rm "$PKGVOL$PKGLOC/%" | |
fi | |
pkgutil --only-dirs --files $1 | sort -r | tr '\r\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -n 1 printf "%s%s/%s\n" $PKGVOL $PKGLOC | |
printf "\n" | |
read -p "Delete empty directories? [Yes/No]: " ANSWER | |
if [ $ANSWER = "Yes" ]; then | |
pkgutil --only-dirs --files $1 | sort -r | tr '\r\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -n 1 -I % sudo rmdir "$PKGVOL$PKGLOC/%" | |
fi | |
printf "\n" | |
read -p "Forget package? [Yes/No]: " ANSWER | |
if [ $ANSWER = "Yes" ]; then | |
sudo pkgutil --forget $1 | |
fi |
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