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  • Using the built-in SSH client in Mac OS X. Mac OS X includes a command-line SSH client as part of the operating system. To use it, goto Finder, and selext Go - Utilities from the top menu. Then look for Terminal. Terminal can be used to get a local terminal window, and also supports SSH connections to remote servers.
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Apr 10, 2018 Download macOS Updates From the Terminal Without Installing. There’s no way, in the Mac App Store, to download an update manually without also triggering the installation. That’s annoying, but you can work around this using the Terminal. First, list all the available updates using softwareupdate -l, like we did above.

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Most of the time, you can re-download the current version of macOS via the Mac App Store, and older ones via these links:

However, I’ve run into a situation several times where the Software Update mechanism simply refuses to initiate a download:

Thankfully, macOS installers can be downloaded via Terminal in macOS Catalina. This command will download the most recent version of macOS, depositing it in your Applications folder:

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer

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The softwareupdate command has some neat tricks up its sleeve, as pointed out by Armin Briegel:

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The --fetch-full-installer flag has a sub-flag: --full-installer-version which allows you to download a specific version.

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During my testing in the Catalina beta version I was able to download 10.15, 10.14.6, 10.14.5, and 10.13.6. I was not able to test if 10.13.6 would download the hardware specific build of 10.13.6 for the 2018 MacBook Pro, since I do not have that hardware.

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So, to pull 10.13.6 down, you’d use:

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 10.13.6

I wish Apple would just have a support document up with direct downloads for all of this stuff, but this tool is not a bad alternative.

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Update: Don’t miss this documentation from JAMF for more on the subject.