Add specific apps to the Dock on Mac

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Hey fellow admins! How do you add specific apps to the Dock on your Mac endpoints? Does anyone here use some sort of scripting solution that you’d be willing to share? Thanks.

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  • Here’s what we put together to run in our environment:

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    #!/bin/bash

    LOGGED_USER=stat -f%Su /dev/console

    sudo su $LOGGED_USER -c ‘defaults delete com.apple.dock persistent-apps’

    dock_item() {

    printf ‘<dict><key>tile-data</key><dict><key>file-data</key><dict><key>_CFURLString</key><string>%s</string><key>_CFURLStringType</key><integer>0</integer></dict></dict></dict>’, “$1”

    }

    # Declare all apps here

    notes=$(dock_item /System/Applications/Notes.app)

    chrome=$(dock_item /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app)

    mail=$(dock_item /Applications/Mail.app)

    sudo su $LOGGED_USER -c “defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array ‘$notes’ ‘$chrome’ ‘$mail'”

    killall Dock

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    The script will detect the currently logged-in user and then customize the dock for that user account.

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