i don't much of max unix command.
What I want to do is open two different terminals and run npm in each one of them.
echo "Starting typescript build in new terminal.."
osascript -e 'npm run build'
sleep 3
echo "Starting firebase functions...."
osascript -e 'firebase emulators:start --only functions'
echo "Process compelete.. Check if there were two terminals window open"
This is what i wrote and this is what I am getting in terminal
Starting typescript build in new terminal..
8:13: syntax error: Expected “given”, “with”, “without”, other parameter name, etc. but found identifier. (-2741)
Starting firebase functions....
0:18: syntax error: A identifier can’t go after this identifier. (-2740)
Process compelete.. Check if there were two terminals window open
Can somone help me out in correcting my shell script
Like this:
osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "cd && npm run build"' &
osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "cd && firebase emulators:start --only functions"' &
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I have almost no idea about shell scripts or commands in linux
I have a project named projectx
projectX happens to be in users/hardik/desktop/projectx
I have created a shell script start.sh. This is the content of shell script
echo "Starting typescript build in new terminal.."
osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "npm run build"'
sleep 3
echo "Starting firebase functions...."
osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "firebase emulators:start --only functions"'
echo "Process compelete.. Check if there were two terminals window open"
now this works but say here
osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "npm run build"'
it runs that in the root and hence gives the following error
ENOENT: no such file or directory, open /Users/hardik/package.json
How can I make it execute in the path which is relative to start.sh
Update: I tried this
echo "Starting typescript build in new terminal.."
path=`pwd`
osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "cd ${path} npm run watch:scss"'
osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "npm run watch"'
echo "Process compelete.. Check if there were two terminals window open"
but this didn't work with error cd: too many arguments
Just change directory to where you need to be prior to running npm:
osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "cd /Users/somewhere && npm run build"'
Insert the line:
cd `dirname $0`
at the top of start.sh. The dirname command produces the directory that a file contains, and $0 is the path that invoked start.sh, so that's the relative directory that you wanted. Note those quotes a left-quotes, so the result of running dirname is passed to cd.
I'd like to run a script to close all apps currently open in my doc. Figured out how to do with with the following script, where APPLICATIONNAME is the name of the app in the dock currently open
osascript -e 'quit app "APPLICATIONNAME"'
Any ideas on how to expand this command to encompass all apps open inside the doc?
Ideally we'd avoid using a killall flavor of script. As force closing running apps in bulk will pose risks in some circumstances
Firstly there is no terse solution to achieve this using osascript as described in your question. osascript by itself simply doesn't provide the options/arguments necessary to fulfil the logic of your requirement.
However, the following bash shell script (.sh) avoids using killall and will prompt the user to save any unsaved changes to document(s) before closing/quitting the application. (This is very similar to how the user is prompted to save any unsaved changes when shutting down the computer):
close-apps.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Creates a comma-separated String of open applications and assign it to the APPS variable.
APPS=$(osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of (processes where background only is false)')
# Convert the comma-separated String of open applications to an Array using IFS.
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10586153/split-string-into-an-array-in-bash
IFS=',' read -r -a myAppsArray <<< "$APPS"
# Loop through each item in the 'myAppsArray' Array.
for myApp in "${myAppsArray[#]}"
do
# Remove space character from the start of the Array item
appName=$(echo "$myApp" | sed 's/^ *//g')
# Avoid closing the "Finder" and your CLI tool.
# Note: you may need to change "iTerm" to "Terminal"
if [[ ! "$appName" == "Finder" && ! "$appName" == "iTerm" ]]; then
# quit the application
osascript -e 'quit app "'"$appName"'"'
fi
done
Note: In the following line of code we avoid closing the Finder and the CLI tool that the command will be run via. You will probably need to change "iTerm" to "Terminal", or to whatever the name of your CLI tool is:
if [[ ! "$appName" == "Finder" && ! "$appName" == "iTerm" ]]; then
Making close-apps.sh executable
As explained in this answer you will need to make the close-apps.sh executable before it can be run. To do this enter the following via your CLI:
$ chmod +x /path/to/close-apps.sh
(The /path/to/close-apps.sh part should be replaced with your path according to where the script is saved)
Running close-apps.sh via the CLI.
You run the shell script by entering the following into the CLI:
$ /path/to/close-apps.sh
(Again, the /path/to/close-apps.sh part should be replaced with your path according to where the script is saved)
Running close-apps.sh via an Applescript.
The shell script can also be executed via an AppleScript application simply by double-clicking instead of entering a command via the CLI.
To do this you'll need to:
Open the AppleScript Editor application, which can be found inside the Applications/Utilities/ folder.
Enter the following code:
on run
do shell script "/path/to/close-apps.sh"
quit
end run
(Again, the /path/to/close-apps.sh part should be replaced with your path according to where the .sh script is saved)
Save the Applescript and chose File Format: Application via the save dialog. Let's call it closeApps.app.
Finally, the following line of code in the close-apps.sh script should be changed from this:
if [[ ! "$appName" == "Finder" && ! "$appName" == "iTerm" ]]; then
... to this:
if [[ ! "$appName" == "Finder" && ! "$appName" == "closeApps" ]]; then
Note The filename of the Applescript (closeApps) replaces iTerm (or Terminal).
To close all applications open in the dock you simply double click the closeApps application icon.
Try this
tell application "System Events"
set appList to the name of every process whose background only is false
end tell
repeat with theApp in appList
try
tell application theApp to quit
end try
end repeat
I have the following script:
i=1;
while [ $i -lt 51 ]
do
osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal"
do script "php $i.php"
end tell' &
i=$[$i+1]
done
I am trying to open a terminal window that executes 1 of 50 php scripts. However, I cannot get the value of $1 to print correctly. In fact, In each terminal its just blank. Each scripted is named 1.php to 50.php - how do I get the value of i to print properly to render the correct file name?
Note, I have been applescripting about an hour. Very open to suggestions to a better script. What I am trying to do is run 50 simultaneous PHP scripts in 50 separate windows simultaneously. Thanks!
It's just a quoting problem - change:
osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal"
do script "php $i.php"
end tell'
to:
osascript -e "tell app \"Terminal\"
do script \"php $i.php\"
end tell"
I've set up this script:
#!/bin/bash
/Applications/NameChanger.app/Contents/MacOS/NameChanger "$#"
osascript -e "delay 1" -e "tell application \"NameChanger\" to activate"
I'm using it to pass file names to NameChanager. Without the second line it loads NameChanger unfocused. I thought I should use a delay and then activate with applescript to get it focused.
Unfortunately the script is "waiting" for NameChanger to run and then to exit before executing the applescript bit. How can I change that?
Alternatively you can use the open command to launch NameChanger. This should also automatically bring NameChanger to the foreground:
#!/bin/bash
open /Applications/NameChanger.app --args "$#"
Append a & at the end of commands in a shell script that you want to run in the background.
/Applications/NameChanger.app/Contents/MacOS/NameChanger "$#" &
How do I use the terminal to open another terminal window but with a path I specify?
I am using automator to load my work stuff when I get to work, but I need to know how to do this:
Open Terminal and Type:
• cd Work/Company/Project/
• script/server
And then new tab in that terminal window and cd to the same folder.
This opens a new terminal window from a command prompt on Mac OSX , executes "cd /" and then keeps the window on top:
osascript -e 'tell application "terminal"' -e 'do script "cd /"' -e 'end tell'
You can put this into a script like this:
#!/bin/sh
osascript -e 'tell application "terminal"' -e "do script \"cd $1\"" -e 'end tell'
Hope this helps.
Use an applescript to do this.
e.g. Open Terminal Here
You can write a shell script to cd to that directory
So write a script that executes something like cd /user/music or something like that, save it as myscript.sh and run it using chmod +x myscript.sh.
This resource from the OS X developer network is pretty helpful
The two scripts below together handle the common scenarios:
1) If Terminal is already running, open a new terminal window and run the 'cd mydir' there
2) If terminal is not already running, use the initial window that Terminal spawns (window 0), rather than annoyingly launching a second window
NOTE: what's not quite perfect is if Terminal has several windows open, all of them will be brought to the front, overlapping any other apps. A solution to raising only the last terminal window to the front appears to require the black magic of AppleScriptObjC - references below:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/39204/script-to-raise-a-single-window-to-the-front
http://tom.scogland.com/blog/2013/06/08/mac-raise-window-by-title/
Script 1 - open a text editor and save as:
/usr/local/bin/terminal-here.sh
#!/bin/sh
osascript `dirname $0`/terminal-here.scpt $1 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
Script 2 - open 'AppleScript Editor', paste contents below and save as:
/usr/local/bin/terminal-here.scpt
# AppleScript to cd (change directory) to a path passed as an argument
# If Terminal.app is running, the script will open a new window and cd to the path
# If Terminal.app is NOT running, we'll use the window that Terminal opens automatically on launch
# Run script with passed arguments (if any)
on run argv
if (count of argv) > 0 then
# There was an argument passed so consider it to be the path
set mypath to item 1 of argv
else
# Since no argument was passed, default to the home directory
set mypath to "~"
end if
tell application "System Events"
if (count (processes whose bundle identifier is "com.apple.Terminal")) is 0 then
# Terminal isn't running so we'll make sure to run the 'cd' in Terminal's first window (0)
tell application "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app"
# Turn off echo, run the 'cd', clear screen, empty the scrollback, re-enable echo
do script "stty -echo; cd " & (mypath as text) & ";clear; printf \"\\e[3J\"; stty echo" in window 0
activate last window
end tell
else
# Terminal is already running so we'll let it open a new window for our 'cd' command
tell application "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app"
# Turn off echo, run the 'cd', clear screen, empty the scrollback, re-enable echo
do script "stty -echo; cd " & (mypath as text) & ";clear; printf \"\\e[3J\"; stty echo"
activate last window
end tell
end if
end tell
end run