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MacOS Launch Daemons vs Agents

MacOS - Launch Daemons vs Agents

Apr 21, 20251 min read

Refer to the Apple’s article (Creating Launch Daemons and Agents) on how to create periodic jobs, or setting intervals for specific scripts.

The following Use launchd instead of crontab on your Mac showcases how to transform your shell scripts to launchd.

References

  • A launchd Tutorial
  • Creating Launch Daemons and Agents
  • Using hidutil to map macOS keyboard keys – rakhesh.com
  • Overview of using launchd to set up services on a macOS machine. Ā· GitHub

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