I am attempting to open a bash shell inside my Box folder. However, I get the following error:
"This file does not have an app associated with it for performing this action. Please install an app or, if one is already installed, create an association in the Default Apps Settings page.
When I right click and select 'Git Bash Here' in Dropbox, however, the Bash shell opens successfully.
I know you can associate a WSL bash shell to .sh files (on Windows 1, with the WSL feature activated)
You could adapt that script in order to not call "%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\bash.exe" (the WSL bash) but C:\path\to\git\bash.exe
But first, check if the issue persists outside a dropbox folder.
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I am learning bash and am working on a bash script that allows me to select a keyboard led-profile (keyboard-color-picker.sh).
The led-profiles are defined in external files (e.g. my-favorite-color-profile), placed in the same folder as the bash script itself.
Such file is accessed like this in the script:
g213-led -p my-favorite-color-profile;;
When I run the bash script from terminal inside the parent folder, everything works as expected.
As I wanted to run my bash script via launcher, I created a desktop file
~/.local/share/applications/color-picker.desktop, where the exec line points to my script:
Exec=/home/me/bin/keyboard-color-picker/keyboard-color-picker.sh
Now my problem is, when envoked via launcher, the script does not seem to access the external files anymore. The profile defined in e.g. "my-favorite-color-profile" is not loaded.
What do I need to change so that my bash script runs via launcher the same way as it runs via terminal from the folder.
The underlying question is how to cd into the absolute path of my script, which is answered, e.g., here.
I want to open a project directory in PhpStorm using pstorm .
I am aware that there are many threads that have discussed this issue, but I have not been able to completely solve my problem with the solutions from those threads.
Using the IntelliJ Toolbox, I click the gear icon (top right) and I enable the Generate Shell Scripts option. I set the Shell script location to /usr/local/bin (which is in my PATH). The Shell Script Name is specified as pstorm.
The first issue is that the script isn't generated in /usr/local/bin. Presumably since the Toolbox doesn't have write privileges at that location. I then set it somewhere where it has write privileges - something like /home/username/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/bin. The script is successfully generated there under pstorm:
# Generated by JetBrains Toolbox 1.20.7940 at 2021-03-24T16:55:42.325644
"/home/username/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/PhpStorm/ch-0/203.7148.74/bin/phpstorm.sh" "$#"
I then copy that file to /usr/local/bin: sudo cp pstorm /usr/local/bin
I then open a terminal and navigate to my desired directory, opening said directory in PhpStorm with pstorm .
PhpStorm then opens the directory. However, PhpStorm is then 'locked' as a child to the (parent) terminal instance and closing the terminal also closes PhpStorm. A more complete explanation relating to this behaviour is given here
I would really prefer that PhpStorm not be dependend on a terminal instance, much like when I run code . for VSCode.
Any ideas why it is doing this and how to 'solve' this behaviour?
I have a python script that I can run in the usual way using Terminal. For example, launch Terminal, cd to the directory, then type ./xxx.py where xxx.py is the name of the file that contains the script.
Now I want to make an icon on the desktop that launches Terminal and runs the python file when I double click it. How do I do that? I thought I could make a shell file with the cd and the launch command and then associate that shell file with Terminal. But I can't seem to associate it with Terminal.
Somebody said to name the shell file with the suffix '.command' but that causes it to launch Flash Builder. I don't know where that associate is set. I can't manually associate Terminal because I can't find it. It isn't in /Applications.
On your Desktop you coul create a file with the following content
#!/bin/bash
python PATH_TO_YOUR_PYTHON_FILE
Then you must make it executable via
chmod u+x FILE_ON_DESKTOP
Alternatively you can create a symbolic link to your python file and make it executable.
You can find Terminal in /Applications/Utilities
I've downloaded a couple of ipython notebooks, and I'd like to open them in browser tabs without navigating to the directory I've downloaded them to and running ipython notebook notebook_name.ipynb.
I realize this probably means I'm lazy, but it seems like a common use case to me. Am I missing something obvious?
Use Pineapple application for opening and working on your IPython/Jupyter notebooks. It is pretty cool.
Update:
Now there is nteract, which is a new jupyter-like Desktop app. After installing it, make it the default app for opening .ipynb files. Then just double-click any notebook to start it right away.
I have found a nice way using Automator (Oct. 2017; with information from here):
open Automator and create a new Application
to add Run Shell Script drag and drop it from the list; might need these settings Shell: /bin/bash and Pass input: as arguments
insert the code below; if necessary adjust the path to jupyter
Code
#!/bin/sh
variable="'$1'"
the_script='tell application "terminal" to do script "/usr/local/bin/jupyter notebook '
osascript -e "${the_script}${variable}\""
save the script as an application (!)
try to open a .ipynb file and change the default app to this newly created one.
notes
This will open a terminal and run the jupyter notebook command, such that you can interrupt and stop the notebook-server from there.
Also note that you cannot test the app like that in Automator, but need to add the Get Specified Finder Items and insert some test notebook there (just for testing purposes).
As pointed out in the comments, there are two more notes:
To avoid spamming your browser history with notebooks, you can start your notebooks in incognito/private mode: Run jupyter notebook in incognito window
If you want to run notebooks in one server and don't mind an extra tool, Sachit Nagpal has pointed out (thank you), that one could also use nbopen. To use this workflow just replace "/usr/local/bin/jupyter notebook ' with "nbopen '. Any other tool should work alike.
pip install nbopen.
open Automator, create new Application
Drag'n drop Run Shell Script
Change Pass input to as arguments
Copy/paste this script:
variable="'$1'"
the_script='tell application "terminal" to do script "nbopen '
osascript -e "${the_script}${variable}\""
Save the new application to Applications directory as nb_open
Right click any ipynb file and select "Open with > Other" and select the nb_open in the Applications folder. Don't forget to check "Always Open With".
Select an ipynb file, get info (command + i) > Open With (select nb_open if not selected already) > Click Change All.... Done.
The application posted here worked pretty well for me: http://bioequity.org/2013/11/16/ipynbviewer/
You also need to download iTerm2, as described on that page.
Note that this doesn't work if there are spaces in the filename, but you can modify it so that it works with spaces in the filename. Control-click on the iPyNbViewer.app and select "Show package contents". Edit the file Contents/Resources/Scripts/main.scpt. Change three instances of "POSIX path" to "quoted form of POSIX path". Now it will work with spaces in the filename.
To set all of your .ipynb files to open with the app, you'll need to Get Info (command-I) on one of the files and select the iPyNbViewer app to open all .ipynb files.
It would be great if this was the default behavior of double-clicking on an iPython notebook file...
I came up with a way of doing it on Ubuntu. (It works for me but I can take no responsibility). It's explained here. In a nutshell, you need to create a new MIME type, then write a script that works as the app that launches them:
#!/bin/bash
netstat -tln |grep "8902"
# if not found - equals to 1, start it
if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
ipython notebook / --no-browser --port=8902 &
sleep .5
fi
xdg-open http://localhost:8902/notebooks$1
This always opens the notebook server on port 8902, but first checks whether there is already a server running, and, if so, uses it.
Then you can use ubuntu tweak to select your script as a default application for the MIME type "IPython Notebook" you just created.
Not very elegant, but worth it, in my opinion.
PyCharm now supports Jupyter ipynb files:
which is from the documentation https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/editing-jupyter-notebook-files.html.
But I think this feature is only available in the Professional version now; hopefully it will be added to the Community version in the future.
Look at this link.
Put a bash script in the folder where you keep your ipython notebooks and simply double click it to open up a notebook instance. From the link above, the bash script has just:
path=$0 # path is path to this file
cd ${path%/*.*} # clip off the file name to get directory path and cd
ipython notebook --pylab inline
Finally, you need to chmod u+x the script to make it executable and you're done.
I have used the command line application 'nbopen' and put it in a Platypus wrapper to get drag'n drop and double click opening on Macos. 'nbopen' is downloadable using 'pip'
It works well when used as described above by DanHickstein.
Only problem with my code is that it requires the full path to the nbopen command. I know I should be able to use 'which nbopen' somehow but can't get it to work.
Heres my Platypus code:
#!/bin/bash
# Opens ipynb files in a Jupyter Notebook
# echo $1
# $1 is the path of the dropped file
/Users/robw/anaconda/bin/nbopen $1
# Based on an idea from
# https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-straightforward-way-to-open-an-IPython-Notebook-in-Windows-by-double-clicking
How do I set up a shell script to execute from the Mac OSX dock? It seems that simply creating a shortcut will open the file in my editor. Is there a flag I need to set somewhere to tell it to run instead of opening it for editing?
You could create a Automator workflow with a single step - "Run Shell Script"
Then File > Save As, and change the File Format to "Application". When you open the application, it will run the Shell Script step, executing the command, exiting after it completes.
The benefit to this is it's really simple to do, and you can very easily get user input (say, selecting a bunch of files), then pass it to the input of the shell script (either to stdin, or as arguments).
(Automator is in your /Applications folder!)
If you don't need a Terminal window, you can make any executable file an Application just by creating a shell script Example and moving it to the filename Example.app/Contents/MacOS/Example. You can place this new application in your dock like any other, and execute it with a click.
NOTE: the name of the app must exactly match the script name. So the top level directory has to be Example.app and the script in the Contents/MacOS subdirectory must be named Example, and the script must be executable.
If you do need to have the terminal window displayed, I don't have a simple solution. You could probably do something with Applescript, but that's not very clean.
On OSX Mavericks:
Create your shell script.
Make your shell script executable:
chmod +x your-shell-script.sh
Rename your script to have a .app suffix:
mv your-shell-script.sh your-shell-script.app
Drag the script to the OSX dock.
Rename your script back to a .sh suffix:
mv your-shell-script.app your-shell-script.sh
Right-click the file in Finder, and click the "Get Info" option.
At the bottom of the window, set the shell script to open with the terminal.
Now when you click on the script in the dock, A terminal window will pop up and execute your script.
Bonus: To get the terminal to close when your script has completed, add exit 0 to the end and change the terminal settings to "close the shell if exited cleanly" like it says to do in this SO answer.
I know this is old but in case it is helpful to others:
If you need to run a script and want the terminal to pop up so you can see the results you can do like Abyss Knight said and change the extension to .command. If you double click on it it will open a terminal window and run.
I however needed this to run from automator or appleScript. So to get this to open a new terminal the command I ran from "run shell script" was "open myShellScript.command" and it opened in a new terminal.
As long as your script is executable and doesn't have any extension you can drag it as-is to the right side (Document side) of the Dock and it will run in a terminal window when clicked instead of opening an editor.
If you want to have an extension (like foo.sh), you can go to the file info window in Finder and change the default application for that particular script from whatever it is (TextEdit, TextMate, whatever default is set on your computer for .sh files) to Terminal. It will then just execute instead of opening in a text editor. Again, you will have to drag it to the right side of the Dock.
In the Script Editor:
do shell script "/full/path/to/your/script -with 'all desired args'"
Save as an application bundle.
As long as all you want to do is get the effect of the script, this will work fine. You won't see STDOUT or STDERR.
I think this thread may be helpful: http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-70973.html
To paraphrase, you can rename it with the .command extension or create an AppleScript to run the shell.
As joe mentioned, creating the shell script and then creating an applescript script to call the shell script, will accomplish this, and is quite handy.
Shell Script
Create your shell script in your favorite text editor, for example:
mono "/Volumes/Media/~Users/me/Software/keepass/keepass.exe"
(this runs the w32 executable, using the mono framework)
Save shell script, for my example "StartKeepass.sh"
Apple Script
Open AppleScript Editor, and call the shell script
do shell script "sh /Volumes/Media/~Users/me/Software/StartKeepass.sh" user name "<enter username here>" password "<Enter password here>" with administrator privileges
do shell script - applescript command to call external shell commands
"sh ...." - this is your shell script (full path) created in step one (you can also run direct commands, I could omit the shell script and just run my mono command here)
user name - declares to applescript you want to run the command as a specific user
"<enter username here> - replace with your username (keeping quotes) ex "josh"
password - declares to applescript your password
"<enter password here>" - replace with your password (keeping quotes) ex "mypass"
with administrative privileges - declares you want to run as an admin
Create Your .APP
save your applescript as filename.scpt, in my case RunKeepass.scpt
save as... your applescript and change the file format to application, resulting in RunKeepass.app in my case
Copy your app file to your apps folder
Exact steps to achieve that in macOS Monterey 12.3
Open Automator
File -> New
Choose Application
Go to Library -> Utilities
Double-click Run Shell Script
Type in whatever command you want to run. For example, try the command to toggle Dark Mode:
osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to not dark mode'
File -> Save
Drag the saved file to the Dock, done!
pip install mac-appify
I had trouble with the accepted solution but this command worked for me.
Install
pip install mac-appify
Run
/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/appify ~/bin/webex_start.sh ~/Desktop/webex.app
Adding to Cahan's clear answer ... to open a shell script from the dock without passing any arguments to it, try:
open [name of your script].scpt"
example:
open "//Users/user/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~ScriptEditor2/Documents/myScript.scpt"
Someone wrote...
I just set all files that end in ".sh" to open with Terminal. It works
fine and you don't have to change the name of each shell script you
want to run.