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Created February 4, 2017 18:58
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Remove spotlight icon from menu bar.
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remove_sl_icon.sh
cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app/Contents/MacOS
sudo cp Spotlight Spotlight.bak
sudo perl -pi -e 's|(\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x47\x40\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00)\x42\x40(\x00\x00\x80\x3f\x00\x00\x70\x42)|$1\x00\x00$2|sg' Spotlight
cmp -l Spotlight Spotlight.bak
sudo codesign -f -s - Spotlight
sudo killall Spotlight
@liuziangexit
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works like a charm

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ghost commented Oct 15, 2022

if having issues on catalina:::

disable system integrity protection, then reboot

then unmount the drive

sudo mount -uw /

then run the above

@jivanpal
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@steveaolsen That was already mentioned in the comments before you 🙂

@juzipeek
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Catalina 10.15.7 work ok

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