how to pass single quote to applescript by zsh alias - bash

i am use applescript to login ssh by gateway。
alias sshtoxxxx="osascript ~/workspace/script/applescript/fox/ssh_xxxx.applescript root#10.10.1.199 hFVDa4d\'vLe"
when password contains ' , it will can not login.
and the applescript is below also it is no use
on run argv
set arg1 to (item 1 of argv)
set arg2 to (item 2 of argv)
testFunc(arg1,arg2)
sshxxx(arg1,arg2)
end run
on sshxxx(target,password)
tell application "iTerm"
reopen
activate
tell the current window
create tab with default profile
tell the current tab
tell the current session
write text "clear"
write text "logfin the gate way host"
delay 0.2
repeat until "xxxxx" is in contents
end repeat
write text "clear"
set targetText to "ssh " & target
write text targetText
repeat until "password" is in contents
end repeat
write text password
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end sshxxx

The question is not related to Applescript. Zsh doesn't care, what programming language the called executable is written in.
If you want to use an alias, your approach is correct. Applescript will see the password parameter as hFVDa4d'vL. However, for ease of debugging, I recommend using a Zsh function instead of an alias; here you have to drop the backslash:
function sshtoxxxx {
osascript ~/workspace/script/applescript/fox/ssh_xxxx.applescript root#10.10.1.199 "hFVDa4d'vLe"
}

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Hide terminal window using applescript

The purpose of the current snippet is to run a script in a new terminal window and instantly hide it. The code below initially seems to work fine but as a result, if the window is manipulated using its visible property it simply disappears and doesn't seem to be executing. Right clicking on the Terminal app within the Dock displays like there is no terminal window at all.
tell application "Terminal"
-- New Terminal Window
set newTab to do script "caffeinate -u -t 900"
set caffeinateWindow to id of front window
tell window id caffeinateWindow
set index to 1
set visible to false
end tell
end tell
instead of telling the terminal use applesripts builtin possibilities:
do shell script "caffeinate -u -t 900"
if you ever want to pass parameters then do it like this:
set param to "900"
do shell script "caffeinate -u -t " & param
Note if a parameter might contain spaces you need to escape/quote it like this:
set param to "900"
do shell script "caffeinate -u -t " & quoted form of param
if you still need to hide a window do it like so:
tell application "System events"
try
set visible of application process "Terminal" to false
end try
end

Replace text in an applescript using an applescript

I have several hundred lengthy applescripts to edit where I need to find and replace the following code snippet in various places in each script.
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5"
set myLayer to current layer of current document
if last character of mySport is "s" then
set contents of text object of myLayer to mySport & ""
else
set contents of text object of myLayer to mySport & "'s"
end if
end tell
I want to replace it with
tell application "Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5"
set myLayer to current layer of current document
set contents of text object of myLayer to mySport & "'s"
end tell
Is there a way to write an applescript to find and replace several lines?
code screen grab
The second problem is how do I deal with the apostrophe contained inside the quotes?
You can probably tell that I'm an artist and not a developer or scripter! I tried to get an answer a while back but unsuccessfully and the problem is now become critical.
Many thanks in anticipation of an answer.
The best would have been to set this subroutine as a separate script library and call it it in each of your scripts. Doing so, only one change would be enough. I advice you to do this way for next time.
I dig to find a way to make change in a script, but that's not that easy. Script Editor as very limited capability for scripting. the work around is to use the GUI scripting, which means that any changes made by Apple in future versions may no longer work.
The script bellow simulate your keyboard action to search & replace CurString to NewString :
set myScript to "Users:imac27:Desktop:Testscript.scpt" -- path to your script
set CurString to "Set B to 2"
set NewString to "Set X to 5"
tell application "Script Editor"
open myScript
activate myScript
delay 2
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "f" using {option down, command down} --mode search & replace
keystroke tab using {shift down} -- got to search area
keystroke CurString -- set the search target
keystroke tab -- goto replace area
keystroke NewString -- set replace value
-- click on menu "Replace all " which is the 7th item of "Search" menu item (=item 14th of menu "Edit")
tell process "Script Editor" to click menu item 7 of menu of menu item 14 of menu 4 of menu bar 1
end tell
compile front document
save front document
close front document
end tell
This script opens the script, it does the search, replaces, clicks on "replace" menu, then it compiles new version, saves it and closes it. If you have many scripts, you must run it through a loop for each script.
I tested it OK with simple line : replace "Set B to 2" by new line "Set X to 5".
However, your issue is more complex because you want to replace several lines, not only 1. I did not found a way to set the search area with multiple lines. I tried with CR (13) or LF (10), but it does not work. May be someone has an idea for that part ?
Also, if you want to add a " in your search or replace patterns, you can use the following :
set Guil to ASCII character 34
Set CurString to "this is a " & Guil & "s" & Guil & " between quotes"
In this case, the CurString value will be : this is a "s" between quotes
I purchased Script Debugger from Late Night Software and it enables the script to access pieces of code and replace them. Mark Alldritt was amazing in the support he offered and the software is now my "first use" destination.
You are sure of your original script and the final script? In this case no hesitation to use xxd and sed below in hexadecimal script which you wrote you can test this script, no danger for your script. Naturally, you change your path and names at your convenience.
set thePath to POSIX path of (choose file)
tell application "Script Editor"
set doc to open thePath
save doc as "text" in POSIX file "/Users/yourname/Desktop/yourscriptold.txt"
close thePath
end tell
set scp to do shell script "xxd -p -c 100000 /Users/yourname/Desktop/yourscriptold.txt " & " | sed -e 's#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#74656c6c206170706c69636174696f6e202241646f62652050686f746f73686f7020434320323031352e35220a736574206d794c6179657220746f2063757272656e74206c61796572206f662063757272656e7420646f63756d656e740a73657420636f6e74656e7473206f662074657874206f626a656374206f66206d794c6179657220746f206d7953706f7274202620222773220a656e642074656c6c#' > /Users/yourname/Desktop/yourscriptnew.txt"
set scp to do shell script "xxd -r -p /Users/yourname/Desktop/yourscriptnew.txt >/Users/yourname/Desktop/yournewscript.txt"
do shell script "osacompile -o " & "/Users/yourname/Desktop/temporyname.scpt" & " /Users/yourname/Desktop/yournewscript.txt"
do shell script "rm -f /Users/yourname/Desktop/yourscriptold.txt "
do shell script "rm -f /Users/yourname/Desktop/yourscriptnew.txt "
do shell script "rm -f /Users/yourname/Desktop/yournewscript.txt "

wait for command line program execution before issuing new action in AppleScript

I am pretty new to AppleScript. I need a script that opens 3 iTerm tabs and executes 3 command line programs respectively. The first program terminates, while the last 2 run indeterminately.
Here is what I have:
tell application "iTerm"
activate
set next to (make new terminal)
tell next
activate current session
launch session "Default Session"
tell the last session
set name to "vagrant-db"
write text "cd ~/Workspace/vagrant-db; vagrant up"
end tell
launch session "Default Session"
tell the last session
set name to "next/core"
write text "cd ~/Workspace/next"
write text "/usr/local/bin/sbt \"project core\" \"run\""
end tell
launch session "Default Session"
tell the last session
set name to "next/web"
write text "cd ~/Workspace/next"
write text "/usr/local/bin/sbt \"project web\" \"~re-start\""
end tell
end tell
end tell
Problem is I need to wait for the first command line operation to end (vagrant booting up) before issuing the second and third. Is there a way to do it?
Not sure if it is possible, but maybe using "do shell script" command from applescript instead, e.g.
set response to do shell script "ls"
will return the contents of the root folder.
Another way (but a very ugly one) is to use 'delay'. E.g.
delay 5
Will delay for 5 seconds
solved with something like
--first program exec
set a to 0
repeat until (a = 1)
if (text of current session contains "ready") then
set a to 1
end if
end repeat
--second program exec
--third program exec
Rusty's answer worked for me. I'm adding this answer to provide detail requested by fusio (sorry, I'd rather have provided this as comment, but comments require more reputation points than adding a new answer).
Rusty's answer requires already being in the context of talking to the current window.
on wait_for(str)
tell application "iTerm"
tell current window
set a to 0
repeat until (a = 1)
if (text of current session contains str) then
set a to 1
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end wait_for
Then, in your code, call:
my wait_for("Provisioners marked to run always will still run.")
The above argument occurs later than "ready".
This is still plenty ugly, but it works.

How can I make my Applescript 'do' a script in my custom window?

I'm working on writing an Applescript that gets my Terminal ready for me to make Firefox add-ons.
tell application "Terminal"
do script "cd Public/addon-sdk-1.0"
do script "source bin/activate"
do script "clear"
end tell
When I run this script, my custom Terminal opens along with a regular Terminal window; and the bash script is ran in the regular window.. So, I'm trying to find out how to make the Applescript only open my custom Terminal, and execute the bash script in it.
The answer to your problem is to not use do script but to send keystrokes to your current terminal window with either keystroke or key code. Here's a script I use to do something similar. I just call this from the terminal with osascript myscript.scpt or launch it directly (I use LaunchBar for invoking applescripts) and it opens a new terminal tab (if the terminal is already open), gives it a custom name and then runs whatever commands I feed it. You could modify this to skip creating a new tab and just run in the current terminal window. I only use this approach when I have to do more than just run some standard terminal commands (such as send keys to an interactive python session), otherwise I just create a bash script.
global ENTER_, ESC_
set ENTER_ to 52
set ESC_ to 53
on run_commands(commands, pause)
tell application "System Events"
repeat with cmd in commands
keystroke cmd
key code ENTER_
delay pause
end repeat
end tell
end run_commands
on new_terminal_tab(tab_name)
activate application "Terminal"
delay 0.5
tell application "System Events"
# create new tab
keystroke "t" using {command down}
delay 0.5
# give it a name
keystroke "I" using {shift down, command down}
keystroke tab_name
delay 0.5
key code ESC_ # escape
end tell
end new_terminal_tab
new_terminal_tab("addon-sdk-work")
run_commands( { "cd /Users/username/Documents/dev/projname",¬
". env/bin/activate", ¬
"clear"}, 0.5)

Programmatically launch Terminal.app with a specified command (and custom colors)

I can launch an xterm from the command line (or a program, via a system call) like so:
/usr/X11/bin/xterm -fg SkyBlue -bg black -e myscript
That will launch an xterm with blue text and a black background, and run an arbitrary script inside it.
My question: How do I do the equivalent with Terminal.app?
You can open an app by bundle id too, and give other parameters.
If there's an executable script test.sh in the current directory, the following command will open and run it in Terminal.app
open -b com.apple.terminal test.sh
The only down side that I can find is that Terminal doesn't appear to inherit your current environment, so you'll have to arrange another way to pass parameters through to the script that you want to run. I guess building the script on the fly to embed the parameters would be one approach (taking into account the security implications of course...)
Assuming you already have the colors you want in one of your Terminal profiles, here's what I came up with (with some help from Juha's answer and from this Serverfault answer).
Update:
On reflection, I think this echo business is too complicated. It turns out you can use osascript to make an executable AppleScript file with a shebang line:
#!/usr/bin/osascript
on run argv
if length of argv is equal to 0
set command to ""
else
set command to item 1 of argv
end if
if length of argv is greater than 1
set profile to item 2 of argv
runWithProfile(command, profile)
else
runSimple(command)
end if
end run
on runSimple(command)
tell application "Terminal"
activate
set newTab to do script(command)
end tell
return newTab
end runSimple
on runWithProfile(command, profile)
set newTab to runSimple(command)
tell application "Terminal" to set current settings of newTab to (first settings set whose name is profile)
end runWithProfile
Save that as term.scpt, make it executable with chmod +x, and use it the same way as below, e.g. term.scpt "emacs -nw" "Red Sands".
Original answer:
Assuming we save the script below as term.sh...
#!/bin/sh
echo '
on run argv
if length of argv is equal to 0
set command to ""
else
set command to item 1 of argv
end if
if length of argv is greater than 1
set profile to item 2 of argv
runWithProfile(command, profile)
else
runSimple(command)
end if
end run
on runSimple(command)
tell application "Terminal"
activate
set newTab to do script(command)
end tell
return newTab
end runSimple
on runWithProfile(command, profile)
set newTab to runSimple(command)
tell application "Terminal" to set current settings of newTab to (first settings set whose name is profile)
end runWithProfile
' | osascript - "$#" > /dev/null
...it can be invoked as follows:
term.sh
opens a new terminal window, nothing special
term.sh COMMAND
opens a new terminal window, executing the specified command. Commands with arguments can be enclosed in quotes, e.g. term.sh "emacs -nw" to open a new terminal and run (non-windowed) emacs
term.sh COMMAND PROFILE
opens a new terminal window, executing the specified command, and sets it to the specified profile. Profiles with spaces in their names can be enclosed in quotes, e.g. term.sh "emacs -nw" "Red Sands" to open a new terminal and run (non-windowed) emacs with the Red Sands profile.
If you invoke it with a bad command name, it'll still open the window and set the profile, but you'll get bash's error message in the new window.
If you invoke it with a bad profile name, the window will still open and the command will still execute but the window will stick with the default profile and you'll get an error message (to stderr wherever you launched it) along the lines of
525:601: execution error: Terminal got an error: Can’t get settings set 1 whose name = "elvis". Invalid index. (-1719)
The invocation is slightly hacky, and could probably be improved if I took the time to learn getopt (e.g., something like term.sh -p profile -e command would be better and would, for instance, allow you to easily open a new terminal in the specified profile without invoking a command). And I also wouldn't be surprised if there are ways to screw it up with complex quoting. But it works for most purposes.
Almost all (every?) osx program can be launched from command line using:
appName.app/Contents/MacOS/command
For terminal the command is:
/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal
You can use the autocomplete (tab) or ls to find the correct filenames. ".app" is basically a folder.
To change the colors and run a script... I think you cannot do it with shell scripts as Terminal does not accept arguments ("Terminal myScript.sh" does not launch myScript). With iTerm this works.
Workaround is to use applescript (wrapped in a shell script):
#!/bin/sh
osascript -e '
tell application "Terminal"
activate
tell window 1
do script "sleep 5; exit"
set background color to {0, 11111, 11111}
set win_id to id
end tell
set w_ids to (id of every window)
repeat while w_ids contains win_id
delay 1
set w_ids to (id of every window)
end repeat
end tell'
Ok, now it should behave exactly the same as the xterm example. The drawback is the constant polling of the window ids (which is bad programming).
edit: A bit more elegant applescript would use the 'busy' property of Terminal. I will leave the original code as is works for a general program (not just terminal).
tell application "Terminal"
tell window 1
do script "sleep 2"
set background color to {0, 11111, 11111}
repeat while busy
delay 1
end repeat
close
end tell
end tell
Also for perfectly correct program, one should check that whether the terminal is running or not. It affects the number of windows opened. So, this should be run first (again a nasty looking hack, that I will edit later as I find a working solution).
tell application "System Events"
if (count (processes whose name is "Terminal")) is 0 then
tell application "Terminal"
tell window 1
close
end tell
end tell
end if
end tell
br,
Juha
You can also go into terminal GUI, completely configure the options to your heart's content, and export them to a ".terminal" file, and/or group the configurations into a Window Group and export that to a terminal file "myGroup.terminal". Then
open myGroup.terminal
will open the terminal(s) at once, with all your settings and startup commands as configured.
you can launch terminal with the following command, not sure how to specify colors:
open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/
The answer from #david-moles above works but run the terminal and command in ~ rather the current working directory where term was launched. This variation adds a cd command.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# based on answer by #david-moles in
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4404242/programmatically-launch-terminal-app-with-a-specified-command-and-custom-colors
echo "
on run argv
if length of argv is equal to 0
set command to \"\"
else
set command to item 1 of argv
end if
set command to \"cd '"$PWD"' ;\" & command
if length of argv is greater than 1
set profile to item 2 of argv
runWithProfile(command, profile)
else
runSimple(command)
end if
end run
on runSimple(command)
tell application \"Terminal\"
activate
set newTab to do script(command)
end tell
return newTab
end runSimple
on runWithProfile(command, profile)
set newTab to runSimple(command)
tell application \"Terminal\" to set current settings of newTab to (first settings set whose name is profile)
end runWithProfile
" | osascript - "$#" > /dev/null
There may be a way to set PWD this with applescript.
Note: When I use this, I sometimes two Terminal windows, one a shell running in ~ and a second which runs the cd command and command from argv[1]. Seems to happen if Terminal is not already running; perhaps it is opening old state (even tho I had no open terminals when I closed it).

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