I am downloading Mountain Lion, I know I can monitor download progress through the Mac App Store purchases screen but I want to know if I can monitor progress through Terminal.app using a shell command.
MacOS – How to check the download progress of Mountain Lion through the terminal
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Best Answer
Sure - the storeagent uses a folder deep within /private/var/folders to hold the download progress.
On my Mac it's downloading to this folder below - yours may change, but you should be able to search for the com.apple.appstore using
mdfind
and usedu
orls
to see the file size grow.The App Store has a nicer wrapper on the progress with a time estimate, but with
bc
and other tools, you could do the same in a short shell script exercise.If you can't locate your folder, this
find
command might be of use to narrow down your search....