mobdevim

Mobile Device Improved: Command line utility that interacts with plugged in iOS devices. Uses Apple's MobileDevice framework

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Installation

1. clone
2. build project
3. Upon build success, mobdevim will be placed in /usr/local/bin

Make sure you have permissions to write to /usr/local/bin or else the Xcode build script will fail

Alternatively, a precompiled version is available here.

Commands

        -f	Get device info

  	-d	Debug application
          		mobdevim -d /application/bundle/on/mac/ Debugs application (must install app first)

  	-g	Get device logs/issues
          		mobdevim -g com.example.name Get issues for com.example.name app
          		mobdevim -g 3 Get the 3rd most recent issue
          		mobdevim -g __all Get all the logs

  	-y	Yoink sandbox content
          		mobdevim -y com.example.test Yoink contacts from app

  	-s	Send content to device (use content from yoink command)
          		mobdevim -s com.example.test /tmp/com.example.test Send contents in /tmp/com.example.test to app

  	-i	Install application, expects path to bundle
          		mobdevim -i /path/to/app/bundle Install app

  	-u	Uninstall application, expects bundleIdentifier
          		mobdevim -u com.example.test Uninstall app

  	-c	Dump out the console information. Use ctrl-c to terminate

  	-C	Get developer certificates on device

  	-p	Display developer provisioning profile info
            		mobdevim -p List all installed provisioning profiles
            		mobdevim -p b68410a1-d825-4b7c-8e5d-0f76a9bde6b9 Get detailed provisioning UUID info

  	-l	List app information
        		mobdevim -l List all apps
        		mobdevim -l com.example.test Get detailed information about app, com.example.test
        		mobdevim -l com.example.test Entitlements List "Entitlements" key from com.example.test

  	-R	Use color

  	-q	Quiet mode, ideal for limiting output or checking if a value exists based upon return status


  Environment variables:
	DSCOLOR - Use color (same as -R)

  	DSDEBUG - verbose debugging

  	DSPLIST - Display output in plist form (mobdevim -l com.test.example)

  	OS_ACTIVITY_DT_MODE - Combine w/ DSDEBUG to enable MobileDevice logging

More commands will be coming soon...