How to Use Terminal to Run Software Updates on a Mac

Published: 04 February 2019
on channel: howtomac9319
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This video demonstrates how to use a terminal shell bash command to run software updates on a Mac. This command forces a restart of the computer when finished, to ensure software updates install successfully. You must be an admin, and run the command as such.

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sudo sh -c "softwareupdate -ia && reboot"


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