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How can I add a start up item via command line on a mac? From googling, I know you have to edit ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist using defaults write com.apple.loginitems [key] [value] but i’m not sure exactly which things to edit.
On Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, it is even simpler than that:
See man launchctl. On earlier versions, it is recommended that you create a Launch Daemon PLIST file and load/start it with launchctl rather than create a startup item… the startup items are the old school way.