How do I Run .command file as admin in terminal?

[5425642]

Hi,
I'm currently trying to uninstall StarTech drivers from my MacBook Pro. The .command file that StarTech has for download that should uninstall the drivers needs to run as admin in the terminal but I can't find out how.

When I'm running the .command file as my ordinary user I get this error:

touch: /System/Library/Extensions/: Read-only file system

Here is the file, nothing strange in it right?

#!/bin/sh

KEXT_PATH_ETH_108_179=/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AX88179.kext
KEXT_PATH_ETH_108=/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AX88179_178A.kext
KEXT_PATH_ETH_109=/Library/Extensions/AX88179_178A.kext

echo "AX88179_178A_Uninstall_v150"

if [ -e $KEXT_PATH_ETH_108_179 ]; then
    sudo kextunload "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_108_179"
    sudo rm -rf "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_108_179"
fi

if [ -e $KEXT_PATH_ETH_108 ]; then
    sudo kextunload "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_108"
    sudo rm -rf "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_108"
fi

if [ -e $KEXT_PATH_ETH_109 ]; then
    sudo kextunload "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_109"
    sudo rm -rf "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_109"
fi

pkgutil --pkgs| grep 'AX88179.pkg' &> /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
   sudo pkgutil --forget AX88179.pkg
fi

pkgutil --pkgs| grep 'AX88179_178A.pkg' &> /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
   sudo pkgutil --forget AX88179_178A.pkg
fi

pkgutil --pkgs| grep 'com.asix.tw.ax88179_178a' &> /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
   sudo pkgutil --forget com.asix.tw.ax88179_178a
fi

pkgutil --pkgs| grep 'com.asix.pkg.ax88179-178a-10.8' &> /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
   sudo pkgutil --forget com.asix.pkg.ax88179-178a-10.8
fi

pkgutil --pkgs| grep 'com.asix.pkg.ax88179-178a-10.9' &> /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
   sudo pkgutil --forget com.asix.pkg.ax88179-178a-10.9
fi

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions/
sudo touch /Library/Extensions/

 

[vfontjr]

This might help: https://fileinfo.com/extension/command

 

[StellarVixen]

Mount home directory as read/write. You should have System Integrity Protection disabled.

 

[chrfr]

Hi,
I'm currently trying to uninstall StarTech drivers from my MacBook Pro. The .command file that StarTech has for download that should uninstall the drivers needs to run as admin in the terminal but I can't find out how.

When I'm running the .command file as my ordinary user I get this error:

touch: /System/Library/Extensions/: Read-only file system

Here is the file, nothing strange in it right?

#!/bin/sh

KEXT_PATH_ETH_108_179=/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AX88179.kext
KEXT_PATH_ETH_108=/System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AX88179_178A.kext
KEXT_PATH_ETH_109=/Library/Extensions/AX88179_178A.kext

echo "AX88179_178A_Uninstall_v150"

if [ -e $KEXT_PATH_ETH_108_179 ]; then
    sudo kextunload "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_108_179"
    sudo rm -rf "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_108_179"
fi

if [ -e $KEXT_PATH_ETH_108 ]; then
    sudo kextunload "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_108"
    sudo rm -rf "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_108"
fi

if [ -e $KEXT_PATH_ETH_109 ]; then
    sudo kextunload "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_109"
    sudo rm -rf "$KEXT_PATH_ETH_109"
fi

pkgutil --pkgs| grep 'AX88179.pkg' &> /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
   sudo pkgutil --forget AX88179.pkg
fi

pkgutil --pkgs| grep 'AX88179_178A.pkg' &> /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
   sudo pkgutil --forget AX88179_178A.pkg
fi

pkgutil --pkgs| grep 'com.asix.tw.ax88179_178a' &> /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
   sudo pkgutil --forget com.asix.tw.ax88179_178a
fi

pkgutil --pkgs| grep 'com.asix.pkg.ax88179-178a-10.8' &> /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
   sudo pkgutil --forget com.asix.pkg.ax88179-178a-10.8
fi

pkgutil --pkgs| grep 'com.asix.pkg.ax88179-178a-10.9' &> /dev/null
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
   sudo pkgutil --forget com.asix.pkg.ax88179-178a-10.9
fi

sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions/
sudo touch /Library/Extensions/

This script would prompt you for an admin password; it's not necessary to run the .command file as root.
Your actual problem is that you appear to be running Catalina, and the /System/Library/Extensions folder is on a read only volume in Catalina.
The extensions which would have been in /Library/Extensions would have been deleted by this script, but you'd need to remove the files in /System/Library/Extensions while booted from the recovery partition. You'd want to confirm the drivers are actually installed in System/Library/Extensions before going to that trouble.

This is a classic case of the XY Problem, incidentally. http://xyproblem.info