Reply to Share your best command on Sat, 25 Sep 2021 20:08:09 GMT

Mike — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 20:08:09 GMT

@Russ This is amazing and so useful. I will be getting the new Mac in a couple of weeks and I was wondering already how I get my commands backed up! Perfect timing.

Reply to Share your best command on Sat, 25 Sep 2021 01:14:59 GMT

Russ — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 01:14:59 GMT

@Mike, I came up with a good one for a mac. I should have thought of this sooner. I think it's useful.

People sometimes lose all of their commands because their hard drive died or something. This way you can restore them to a new computer (or hard drive).

Backup your TRIGGERcmd commands to iCloud Drive

Put this text in a script called bkuptcmd.sh in your home directory (or wherever you want):

CMP_ID=$(cat ~/.TRIGGERcmdData/computerid.cfg)
BKUP_PATH="$HOME/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/tcmdBackups/$CMP_ID"
echo $BKUP_PATH
mkdir -p "$BKUP_PATH"
cp ~/.TRIGGERcmdData/commands.json "$BKUP_PATH"

Make it executable with a command like this:

chmod +x bkuptcmd.sh

Create a TRIGGERcmd command and set the command field to this:

~/bkuptcmd.sh

Run your command remotely.

Witness your commands.json file in iCloud Drive:

The folder name is your computer's TRIGGERcmd computer id. You can match that to your computer record by clicking the View Triggers button for the computer. The computer id will be in the URL.