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How can I get Mac OS X's proxy information in a Bash script?

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I have several network locations set up on my laptop: Work, Home, etc. The work one(s) all have a proxy server set up, while the others don't. This works fine for OSX applications -- Safari, Mail, even Firefox and Thunderbird with the System Proxy plugin. For terminal applications such as , , , and…

Error Output

export HTTP_PROXY='http://proxy.mycompany.com:80'
export http_proxy=$HTTP_PROXY

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What version of Mac OS X? I'm not positive the tool is included with Mac OS X 10.4 or earlier. should be what you're looking for, namely (eg. sudo networksetup -getwebproxy Airport) The output comes out as so: So you will need to convert the output …

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