Get reminders of available updates for software on your Mac from the Mac App Store.

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appupdates-notify

Get reminders of available updates for software on your Mac from the Mac App Store.

Install the pre-requisites:

brew install mas terminal-notifier

Copy to your computer:

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/norm/ec158737655d5b0605054260522e2f72/raw/appupdates-notify.sh > /usr/local/bin/appupdates-notify
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/appupdates-notify

Run daily in cron:

00 09 * * * /usr/local/bin/appupdates-notify

appupdates-notify.sh

#!/bin/sh

OUTDATED=$( mktemp '/tmp/appupdates.XXXXX' )

mas outdated > $OUTDATED
lines=$( wc -l $OUTDATED | awk '{ print $1 }' )

if [ $lines -gt 0 ]; then
    cat $OUTDATED \
        | terminal-notifier \
            -title 'App Store' -subtitle 'Available updates' \
            -sender com.apple.appstore -activate com.apple.appstore
fi

rm -f $OUTDATED