bounce is a Bash script that quickly restarts applications, system services, network interfaces—anything it knows about.
Sometimes one of these services, for short, needs to be restarted because it's acting funny, because of planned maintenance, or just because. Restarting the whole machine may be only a few clicks or a clever command away, but that's kind of like using a sledgehammer to "slice" an avocado.
Restarting individual services typically requires multiple commands, the knowledge of which is only unlocked after reading liberal amounts of man <whatever> and sudoing around without a helmet, hoping nothing breaks.
bounce makes restarting individual services convenient one-liners so you can stay DRY and not get guacamole everywhere.
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite and later.
Copy bounce to a directory in your PATH and make it executable.
When run as a normal user, bounce only asks for your password when sudo is required.
bounce's syntax is super simple. Restarting Wi-Fi is as easy as:
bounce airport
To restart wired networking:
bounce ethernet
Do both together:
bounce wifi ethernet
bounce uses aliases for some services. In this case, bounce airport and bounce wifi are identical under the hood. Likewise, if you want to restart Spotlight, both bounce spotlight and bounce mds will take care of any mds, mds_stores, and mdworker processes. You can use whichever name you prefer or remember most easily.
bounce only works on applications and services it knows about. For full usage and a list of all supported services:
bounce -h
Note: bounce does not check whether a service is already running. Stopped services will be started, and running services will be restarted.
Copyright 2017 Bradley Sepos
Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.