Remove from dock

Hi...

Would it not be easier to just drag the icon straight up off the Dock so it goes, "poof" ...

Applications cannot be stored in the Dock.

To remove an item from the dock using applescript, you can use the following (it makes a list of all the persistent-apps entries that are not the one you're trying to remove, and rewrites that list to the plist file):

tell application "System Events"

set dockPlistFile to property list file "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist"

tell dockPlistFile

tell property list item "persistent-apps"

set appTileItems to value of (every property list item whose value of property list item "tile-data"'s property list item "file-label" is not "app name")

set its value to appTileItems

end tell

end tell

end tell

tell application "Dock" to quit

Hi,

How can I use it in command line?

osascript 'tell application "System Events" set dockPlistFile to property list file "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist" tell dockPlistFile tell property list item "persistent-apps" set appTileItems to value of (every property list item whose value of property list item "tile-data"'s property list item "file-label" is not "app name") set its value to appTileItems end tell end tell end tell tell application "Dock" to quit'

or

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" set dockPlistFile to property list file "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist" tell dockPlistFile tell property list item "persistent-apps" set appTileItems to value of (every property list item whose value of property list item "tile-data"'s property list item "file-label" is not "app name") set its value to appTileItems end tell end tell end tell tell application "Dock" to quit'

but I get: -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `)'

Any idea?

Thanks!

From the command line you could do it like this->

#Change name_of_app to the app you want to remove
dloc=$(defaults read com.apple.dock persistent-apps | \
grep _CFURLString\" | \
awk '/name_of_app/ {print NR}'
)
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Delete persistent-apps:$dloc" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
killall Dock

Message was edited by: Mark Jalbert Problems with bk awk.

Great! Would there be a way to do the same to add an app too? My scenario is that I need to remove an app from the dock and add another. If I could do this in a single call that would be great.

Thoughts?

Stephen

This is not working for me in Mavericks. Has anything changed?

EDITED: I removed the carriage returns in the text for the terminal and it worked just fine.

Is there a way to do the same but to add an application?