So, I need to make an AppleScript to ssh into my mint headless server. I don't need to transfer files, just run commands. The issue is, when I ssh with one do shell script, it is in a separate instance than the others. Also, bonus if I don't have to use keystrokes and keep the terminal in front.
Edit: It would help if you guys told me why you're downvoting this post.
Not sure if that is what you want but with Terminal.app you can do that:
set shellScript to "echo" & space & quoted form of "Test Message"
tell application "Terminal"
activate
try
if (exists tab 1 of window 1) then
do script with command shellScript in front window
else
do script with command shellScript
end if
on error
beep
end try
end tell
Above code executes shellScript in the front window or in a new window when no window is open. Hope it helps.
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I think there is no AppleScript script command to hide an application.
With System Events we can do a keystroke, so let's do cmd-h which hides an application:
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Terminal" to set frontmost to true
-- delay 0.25 -- in case it does not work
keystroke "h" using command down
end tell
I don't know how Terminal.app will behave with hiding and doing scripts but you will find out.
Or put the Terminal-Window in another Finder Space.
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I have a command line application running on OSX that would like to create several tabs in the current window using AppleScript.
How can I tell if my program is running in Terminal, iTerm, or another terminal program?
The $TERM_PROGRAM env var is set to iTerm.app or Apple_Terminal so you can determine which AppleScript cmds to run if you pass it as an arg to osascript (assuming your shelling to osascript)
Example usage:
osascript ThisScriptName.scpt $TERM_PROGRAM
Example script:
--osascript ThisScriptName.scpt $TERM_PROGRAM
on run {TermType}
if (TermType = "iTerm.app") then
-- iTerm.app :-P
tell application "iTerm"
tell current window
tell current session
set newSession to (split horizontally with default profile)
end tell
end tell
end tell
else if (TermType = "Apple_Terminal") then
-- Terminal.app
tell application "Terminal"
do script "open 'https://iterm2.com/downloads.html'" in window 1
end tell
else
-- Unknown terminal application
return "Really? Not using iTerm.app or Terminal.app"
end if
end run
osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to get the name of every process whose visible is true'
This will a list of running applications, assuming your only running one of terminal, iTerm, ..., this will work
Do what you want with the list
Hope this helps
I have a custom vim setup running inside split (GNU) screen sessions running in several tabs inside Terminal. Naturally I want to automate all that. So Ive Googled a lot and most answers talk about using osascript -e to run a bunch of AppleScript commands. My situation is slightly different: first Im using TotalTerminal, a plugin for Terminal (dont think it matters but mention it just in case) and Im writing a hashbang script and not a bash script, i.e.
#!/usr/bin/osascript
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down
tell application "Terminal" to activate
tell application "Terminal" to do script with command "cd ~/Desktop/Projects && screen -d -U -R -A"
which Im running from the command-line. The tab opening works but the script/command runs in a new window instead of inside a newly-created tab.
This is how I might recommend setting things up:
#!/usr/bin/osascript
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Terminal"
set frontmost to true
end tell
end tell
tell application "Terminal"
activate
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "t" using command down
do script "cd ~/Desktop/Projects && screen -d -U -R -A" in window frontmost
do script "clear; echo 'Hello, World!'" in tab 1 of window frontmost
end tell
Note: You also can select the tab you want the next command to go into by using tab x. If you switch back to the first tab you should notice the echo sent to it after creating the new tab.
The example above is a few more lines of code perhaps, although it should get all the processes correctly in order. I think the key ingredient is having Terminal set frontmost to true which gets the current Terminal window to start interacting with the rest of the script.
EDIT: The OP came back and needed to make a few changes and this was the end result:
#!/usr/bin/osascript
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Terminal"
set frontmost to true
end tell
end tell
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script "mosh user#someserver" in window frontmost
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "t" using command down
do script "cd ~/Desktop/Projects && screen -d -U -R -A" in tab 2 of window frontmost
end tell
I am trying to run a shell script in a MAC terminal. I want to open a new terminal window that will execute the script separate from the program that is running. In Fedora, there is a gnome-terminal command which lets me execute a script in another terminal shell.
Does anyone know an equivalent on MAX OSX and how to use it?
For example say I have a script crazy.sh and I want to call this from a program that is executing but in a separate terminal from the one which is currently executing the program.
I like DigitalTrauma's answer but I found for my use, this worked better
open -a Terminal.app crazy.sh
Thanks for the answers.
One way to do it is to use an xterm instead of a terminal window:
xterm -e crazy.sh
If you want the xterm to stay open after the script completes, use the -hold option to xterm.
But if you really need to do this in a terminal, you can do it with applescript:
tell application "Terminal"
activate
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "n" using command down
repeat while contents of selected tab of window 1 starts with linefeed
delay 0.1
end repeat
do script "crazy.sh" in window 1 -- make sure the path to your script is right
end tell
(Credit to the answer here https://superuser.com/questions/466619/open-new-terminal-tab-and-execute-script)
I am trying to use Platypus to create an app launcher for an interactive command-line program on OSX 10.8. I want to be able to double-click on my application, and have a Terminal window open, running my program. The problem is that my Applescript, (borrowed from Octave, and adapted for Julia) launches a Terminal window and attempts to spit some commands into it, however I have a rather hefty ~/.bash_profile that interferes with this. Is there a way to get my Applescript to open a non-login shell, or not source ~/.bash_profile, etc?
Here's the script that Platypus runs:
# This is the startup procedure written as AppleScript to open a
# Terminal.app (if the Terminal.app is not already running) and start
# the Julia program.
# 20071007 removed: open -a /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
osascript 2>&1>/dev/null <<EOF
tell application "System Events" to set ProcessList to get name of every process
tell application "Terminal"
activate
if (ProcessList contains "Terminal") or ((count of every window) is less than 1) then
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "n" using command down
end if
do script ("exec bash -c \"PATH=${ROOT}/julia/bin:${PATH} OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 FONTCONFIG_PATH=${ROOT}/julia/etc/fonts GIT_EXEC_PATH=${ROOT}/julia/libexec/git-core GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=${ROOT}/julia/share/git-core exec '${ROOT}/julia/bin/julia'\"") in front window
end tell
EOF
# Quit the Julia.application immediately after startup (ie. quitting
# it in the taskbar) because once it is started it cannot be restarted
# a second time. If Julia.app stays (eg. because of a crash) opened
# then restarting is not possible.
osascript 2>&1>/dev/null <<EOF
tell application "julia"
quit
end tell
EOF
In general, you don't need a Terminal window to execute command line stuff. You would only use the Terminal if there was information you need to manually type in by hand. So you can probably just run the command using "do shell script" instead of "do script" in a Terminal window. Note that doing it this way won't use your bash profile file. So try this command all by itself in the applescript...
do shell script ("exec bash -c \"PATH=${ROOT}/julia/bin:${PATH} OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1 FONTCONFIG_PATH=${ROOT}/julia/etc/fonts GIT_EXEC_PATH=${ROOT}/julia/libexec/git-core GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=${ROOT}/julia/share/git-core exec '${ROOT}/julia/bin/julia'\"")
Then you can add your other applescript commands as needed, just don't use the Terminal and thus your bash profile won't be used.
I've got a setup procedure for a project that involves me using multiple terminal windows. The start up procedure is sort of messy and involves me tabbing between the terminal windows (different tools running) and sequentially inputting commands into each terminal.
Applescript is useful for getting the first run of commands out and opening all my terminals with the:
do script "echo blablablabla"
These are decent because they open new terminal windows each time I "do script". This is actually more beneficial to me than tabbing (although, I couldn't quite figure out tabbing between terminal tabs).
However, I'd like to keep track of these windows since I need to go back to specific ones and input more commands. Any ideas?
More specifically:
Is there a way I can add an alias for each window to track it and tab back to it in the Applescript? If so, how do I implement it?
do script has an in specifier:
tell application "Terminal"
set t to do script "echo a"
do script "echo b"
do script "echo c" in t
set index of window 2 to 1
end tell
Or using tabs:
tell application "Terminal"
activate
set t to do script "echo a"
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "t" using command down
do script "echo b" in window 1
set selected tab of window 1 to t
end tell