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A utility for removing packages on Mac OS X
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Usage: rm_pkg.sh com.example.app | |
| # Find packages names with "pkgutil --pkgs" | |
| set -e | |
| set -x | |
| OLD_PWD=$(pwd) | |
| PKG=$1 | |
| cd "$(pkgutil --pkg-info $PKG | grep volume | cut -c9-)" | |
| cd "$(pkgutil --pkg-info $PKG | grep location | cut -c11-)" | |
| pkgutil --only-files --files $PKG | tr '\n' '\0' | tee /dev/tty | xargs -n 1 -0 sudo rm -if | |
| pkgutil --only-dirs --files $PKG | tail -r | tr '\n' '\0' | tee /dev/tty | xargs -n 1 -0 sudo rmdir | |
| cd $OLD_PWD |
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