Here I want to ask you to help to bring the console window top most with a shell command. Is it possible?
there was a script execution in my work environment, and will take about several minutes to complete, I will move to other work while running, it is better there are some tips to notify me when script completes run.
So I think bring the window top most is the most direct way.
Please tell me how to achieve this, I'm working on windows, new to MacOS.
Thanks,
Levi
I don't know how to bring the console window to the front, but if you're working in the terminal, you could do something like:
$ path/to/script ; tput bel
or
$ path/to/script ; say "script 1 is done"
Where path/to/script is whatever your usual method of loading the script is.
I recommend the first method, as it flashes the screen, makes a beeping noise, and causes the terminal icon to bounce up and down on my dock in OS X 10.10. The second might be better if you need to figure out which script is done from among a bunch of scripts. If you have coworkers who you don't want to disturb, you can change the preferences in terminal so that an alert only flashes the screen and doesn't also make a noise.
If you have access to the source code of the script, you can also add tput bel or say "command" to the last line of the script and you'll get the same behvaior.
Related
I am using Ruby on a mac to open a dozen URLs one at a time with Nokogiri etc.
For each URL I need to let my ruby program know
whether to keep the URL window for further inspection or close it.
But I cannot see the terminal window and its prompt, it is hidden behind
the last URL window.
I have to click on the terminal window in order to bring it to the front, in order to enter my decision on the keyboard.
puts "close webpage?"
if gets =~ /^y/i then 1 ; else; 0; end;
I would like the terminal window to come to the front before it prompts
me for an answer.
I think the question is two fold
Is there a terminal command that tells a terminal window to become
the active one (the one in the front) that would work with mac iTerm.
The Apple script "bringiTermtofront" works in the applescript editor.
tell application "iTerm" to activate
Is there a way to execute a terminal command from ruby.
the ruby code
system "osascript bringiTermtofront.scpt"
brings the iTerm to the front.
For Question 1, one approach would be to write an Applescript to handle the switch, and then use the Terminal command osascript to run it from your Ruby code. You could also check if rb-appscript is still usable (it's no longer supported, but might work).
For Question 2, you have a few choices. Using backticks around the command will let you capture the output of a brief command, if you want to store the result of the command in a variable. (E.g. use grep or something similar).
The system method in Kernel is probably your best choice, though, as it will execute shell commands as if at the terminal.
Per the edit showing what script you're using, you need to execute the script as Applescript, not as a terminal script. You don't even need a separate file as it's just one line. This would be :
command = %q[osascript -e "tell application \"iTerm\" to activate"]
system(command)
You could also put the Applescript in a file and execute it using just
system("osascript bringiTermtofront")
See "Running shell commands from Ruby" for a little more help on how to interact with these methods.
I need script which works in the background, waiting for a key to be pressed. I have a script which works when terminal is on. When I try to use & - it's not working correctly. The script works in background but keypress doesn't do anything. When I try use nohup then I have error of read - bad descriptor.
Can someone help me?
When the terminal is on (and is selected, in case of a terminal emulator running on x server), the input (key strokes, etc.) is directed to the terminal; hence, your program works.
Now, consider an example: let's say that you created a script that runs on the background, and it is activated by pressing the letter "a". If pressing "a" triggered your script (with terminal closed), then the user would never be able to (for example) type the letter "a" in a word document or a web search without triggering the script!
Therefore, what you are looking for is a key bind, or a keyboard shortcut, which would bind a key (combination) such as ctl+j+k to launch the script you want.
In Linux, that can be done somewhat easily, see this for Ubuntu or this for Lubuntu.
Important: if your script needs to be root to work, then you generally will have to evoke it via gksu or gksudo, otherwise it will not run
Simple question: Is there a way to run a script in the background with out terminal running?
More detail and background: I had an app that read an apps .log file and puled information from it, then provide information and statistics from the information in the log.
An update to the app changed the way the .log file was written and delete information and duplicates the log in a manner that i have been unable to predict.
the app that was designed to interface with the log was not coded to check for such changes. so when it attempts to gather information after the log change it stops working.
A "hack" has been devised to run a tail -f, then hexed the app to point at the new file.
(The "hack" works)
I would like to run the tail in the background so that the user doesn't interrupt it... breaking it...
-sorry for the (possibly) longer than needed description. BUt i figured a more detailed question would get me a precise answer.
Thanks in advance!
~¥oseph
The answer depends on if you need to be able to re-connect to the process after exiting the shell. If the process is non-interactive and can simply be left alone, then "nohup program &" should do the trick. But that won't let you continue to interact with the program after you've closed the shell.
If it's a interactive program, then your best bet is to use screen or one of the other terminal-multiplexers. You start "screen" which gives you a new shell, in this you start whatever program you want, the usual way, say "nano myfile.txt".
When you want to close the shell, but leave the program running, you press C-a d ('Detach') to detach from screen. it keeps running, but in the background, and will keep running even if you log out.
When you then later want to reconnect to screen you open a new shell and type "screen -r" (reconnect), this leaves you right where you where.
Screen also lets you run several different shells in a single terminal-window and is a neat tool overall. Check it out.
Is it possible to write an AppleScript to put the display to sleep (which locks the display if the computer is set to lock on sleep)? You can do this from the keyboard by entering ⌃⇧⏏ (shift+control+eject); this leaves all the programs, etc., running, and just turns off the screen.
I've been wanting to do this for a while now. I just found out how in the man pages. You can use the following command to achieve instant display sleep. (I have tested it on OS X 10.10.)
pmset displaysleepnow
(no root privileges / sudo required!)
I'm not sure if this works for 10.9.4 yet but by all means give it a shot!
you can use: tell application "Finder" to sleep
Or use bettertouchtool. It is a small app which you can use native functions in addition to applescript.
do shell script "pmset displaysleepnow"
Edit 2015-08-23: This is possible (from the shell) as of OS X 10.9! Go see user3064009's answer for the update :-)
There's no good way to do this; there's a SuperUser question about this same thing. Depending on why you want this, however, there's one workaround I know: activate the screen saver. (This is what they suggest over on SuperUser). You can do this in AppleScript with launch application id "com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine", or from the command line by running the application /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine. I don't know whether or not this is technically documented anywhere, but it's worked for several iterations of the OS now. It may not do exactly what you want—your screen saver may, for instance, be colorful, which isn't helpful if you want a black screen—but it will be the same in that it does lock the screen if you have that set up.
For a nice catalog of other workarounds, check out this MacScripter thread: it documents that
There's no scriptable way to do this.
You can't tell AppleScript to key code EJECT, as there's no such key code.
You can use pmset to tell the display to go to sleep in one minute, but then you have to wait.
There's an undocumented IOKit way to do this; there's a mailing list post explaining how.
I haven't found an easy way to do it programmatically, but I did find a very small, free app that puts the display immediately to sleep, called "SleepDisplay." (There is another app of the same name that did NOT work for me.)
So you can just
tell application "SleepDisplay" to activate
Link: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26234/sleep-display
I have a bash script that I run to toggle visibility for my desktop icons which is the following:
#!/bin/bash
DESKTOP=$(defaults read com.apple.finder "CreateDesktop")
if [ $DESKTOP == 1 ]
then
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false
else
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true
fi
killall Finder
it works, but there's 2 issues here I don't know how if it's possible to do using bash.
when running this script it It opens up terminal run the app and leave the terminal opened.
Is there any way to make this script run without have to open the terminal?
I've found this link Making an executable bash file run when clicked which use Platypus as a wrapper for your script, but I would like to know if it's possible to do something natively without any extra tool :)
when running the script the killall Finder makes everything restart so the screen blinks and you lose the actual state of your windows
Is is possible to make only the desktop icons fade-in/out smoothly without affecting windows and other resources based on Finder?
this Camouflage app works like this, so basically I would like to know if it's possible to replicate this behavior using bash script.
Well that's it, I hope it's easy to understand.
You could say that I could use this camouflage app for my needs but actually I'm trying to learn a bit about it and trying to do it myself (and obviously, with your help :)
Thanks in advance
Update
I was having a look at the second issue and I'm not sure but it seems that app in question doesn't hide the icons from destkop but instead, it creates an overlay between the most front level on the desktop(that is over the icons) and generate an image which is the same used as a desktop image. hence the fading effect, since it can control the image transition when appearing. what helped me analyze this was since every time you close the app the icons appear back. So it must have something do to with it.
If I am wrong the it's really possible to do other way, please share your opinion :)
Not sure about a solution for your second question, but for the first: take a look at the third answer for the StackOverflow question you linked to:
Making an executable bash file run when clicked
You can create an application bundle with AppleScript Editor or Automator that will run your script without opening a Terminal window.