I've written a simple bash script that prompts for a file or directory path and opens it with exo-open, I've then assigned the script to a keyboard shortcut so that I can CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+O to open anything at anytime via a terminal prompt:
And the script:
#!/bin/bash
# CD to the home folder (not sure if this is needed, no harm either way)
cd ~/
# Request the filepath
echo -e "\e[1;31mEnter a file or directory:\e[00m"
read -e -i "~/" filename
# Convert ~/ to /home/username/
filename=`eval "echo $filename"`
echo -e "opening\e[1;32m" $filename "\e[00m"
# Open the file
exo-open "$filename"
echo "press enter to exit"
read enter
My problem is that the spawned program is linked to the terminal, when the terminal closes it takes the program with it - as a simple workaround I have another user prompt at the end to stop the terminal from closing; does anyone know how I could allow the terminal to close but keep the resulting program open?
Some ideas I've had / tried:
run disown $! after exo-open (didn't work)
use nohup (didn't work)
Run exo-open from the PPID (no idea how to do this)
At my wits end :-(
I had this answered by Xfce forum member ToC
http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=25670
Turns out you can use setsid like so:
#!/bin/bash
# CD to the home folder (not sure if this is needed, no harm either way)
cd ~/
# Request the filepath
echo -e "\e[1;31mEnter a file or directory:\e[00m"
read -e -i "~/" filename
# Convert ~/ to /home/username/
filename=`eval "echo $filename"`
echo -e "opening\e[1;32m" $filename "\e[00m"
# Open the file
setsid exo-open "$filename"
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I want to execute
Path : "/Users/Trans/Downloads/solr-6.1.0"
Command: "bin/solr start -p 8983"
and
Path : " /Users/Trans/Downloads/apache-activemq-5.12.0/bin"
Command: "./activemq console"
To make it executable on click I create one .command file
having
!#/bin/bash
"/Users/Trans/Downloads/solr-6.1.0" bin/solr start -p 8983
"/Users/Trans/Downloads/apache-activemq-5.12.0/bin" ./activemq console
Given chmode +x permissions to it
But something seems to be wrong, Code is not getting executed.
My aim is to create one batch/bash file on double clicking on it should open terminal and execute both commands or more than that.
Shebang begins with #! not !#
#!/bin/bash
# verbose mode ( or -v in shebang )
set -v
cd "/Users/Trans/Downloads/solr-6.1.0" && bin/solr start -p 8983
echo "press a key to continue"
read -n1
cd "/Users/Trans/Downloads/apache-activemq-5.12.0/bin" && ./activemq console
echo "press a key to continue"
read -n1
English is not my native language, please accept my apologies for any language issues.
I want to execute a script (bash / sh) through CRON, which will perform various maintenance actions, including backup. This script will execute other scripts, one for each function. And I want the entirety of what is printed to be saved in a separate file for each script executed.
The problem is that each of these other scripts executes commands like "duplicity", "certbot", "maldet", among others. The "ECHO" commands in each script are printed in the file, but the outputs of the "duplicity", "certbot" and "maldet" commands do not!
I want to avoid having to put "| tee --append" or another command on each line. But even doing this on each line, the "subscripts" do not save in the log file. That is, ideally in the parent script, you could specify in which file each script prints.
Does not work:
sudo bash /duplicityscript > /path/log
or
sudo bash /duplicityscript >> /path/log
sudo bash /duplicityscript | sudo tee –append /path/log > /dev/null
or
sudo bash /duplicityscript | sudo tee –append /path/log
Using exec (like this):
exec > >(tee -i /path/log)
sudo bash /duplicityscript
exec > >(tee -i /dev/null)`
Example:
./maincron:
sudo ./duplicityscript > /myduplicity.log
sudo ./maldetscript > /mymaldet.log
sudo ./certbotscript > /mycertbot.log
./duplicityscript:
echo "Exporting Mysql/MariaDB..."
{dump command}
echo "Exporting postgres..."
{dump command}
echo "Start duplicity data backup to server 1..."
{duplicity command}
echo "Start duplicity data backup to server 2..."
{duplicity command}
In the log file, this will print:
Exporting Mysql/MariaDB...
Exporting postgres...
Start duplicity data backup to server 1...
Start duplicity data backup to server 2...
In the example above, the "ECHO" commands in each script will be saved in the log file, but the output of the duplicity and dump commands will be printed on the screen and not on the log file.
I made a googlada, I even saw this topic, but I could not adapt it to my necessities.
There is no problem in that the output is also printed on the screen, as long as it is in its entirety, printed on the file.
try 2>&1 at the end of the line, it should help. Or run the script in sh -x mode to see what is causing the issue.
Hope this helps
I have a .sh script that works fine if I run it in Terminal using "/Volumes/MEDIA/SERVER/SYNC.sh"
But I can not get it to run the same in AppleScript Editor using:
do shell script "/Volumes/MEDIA/SERVER/SYNC.sh"
Also tried the above with bash in front, sh in front.
The shell script (SYNC.sh)
#!/bin/bash
login="uhh"
pass="uhh"
host="uhh.com"
remote_dir='~/private/sync'
local_dir="/Volumes/MEDIA/_/SYNCING"
base_name="$(basename "$0")"
lock_file="/tmp/$base_name.lock"
trap "rm -f $lock_file" SIGINT SIGTERM
if [ -e "$lock_file" ]
then
echo "$base_name is running already."
exit
else
touch "$lock_file"
lftp -p 22 -u "$login","$pass" sftp://"$host" << EOF
set sftp:auto-confirm yes
set mirror:use-pget-n 5
mirror -c -P5 --Remove-source-files --log="/Volumes/MEDIA/SERVER/LOGS/$base_name.log" "$remote_dir" "$local_dir"
quit
EOF
# MOVE FINISHED FILES INTO DIRECTORY FOR CONVERSION
mv /Volumes/MEDIA/_/SYNCING/movies/* /Volumes/MEDIA/SEEDBOX/MOVIES
mv /Volumes/MEDIA/_/SYNCING/tvshows/* /Volumes/MEDIA/SEEDBOX/TVSHOWS
mv /Volumes/MEDIA/_/SYNCING/books/* /Volumes/MEDIA/SEEDBOX/BOOKS
mv /Volumes/MEDIA/_/SYNCING/music/* /Volumes/MEDIA/SEEDBOX/MOVIES
# SHOW COMPLETED NOTIFICIATION
osascript -e 'display notification "Sync completed" with title "SEEDB0X"'
rm -f "$lock_file"
trap - SIGINT SIGTERM
exit
fi
By not 'the same' what happens is only the
osascript -e 'display notification "Sync completed" with title "SEEDB0X"'
is run. With the script running through Terminal that only appears once syncing is done.
Thanks for any help!
Did you install lftp yourself? I don't have a Mac handy to check if it's in Mac OS X by default or not. If you installed it, then it probably isn't in the PATH of the AppleScript environment and the bash script can't find it when run from there.
If this is the case, then you'll have to either:
Fully qualify the path to 'lftp' (eg, "/usr/local/bin/lftp" or where ever it actually is)
or
Append to the PATH environment variable as used by AppleScript (or early in your bash script).
I think I'd go for option 1. Option 2 is overkill and more likely to adversely affect other things at other times.
PS. If you don't know where 'lftp' is installed, type 'which lftp' in the terminal.
I want to write a shell script that does this:
First, create a tmux session
Second, run a ruby script called "run.rb" INSIDE the tmux session
In pseudo-code, what I want to do:
tmux new -s my_session
ruby run.rb # NOTE: I want this to run inside the my_session tmux session.
tmux detach
How do I do this? (More posts I read, more confusing it gets.)
#!/bin/bash
tmux new-session -d -s my_session 'ruby run.rb'
Create a file named my_script.sh and give it the above contents.
Make the file executable by running:
chmod 755 my_script.sh
or
chmod +x my_script.sh
Then run the shell script:
./my_script.sh
Making the shell script executable
When you perform the chmod 755 filename command you allow everyone to read and execute the file, and the file owner is allowed to write to the file as well. You may need this for Perl and other scripts that should be run via a webserver. If you apply 755 to a directory, it means that everyone can go to it and get its file listing.
These permissions are usually translated into textual representation of rwxr-xr-x.
You can alternatively use chmod +x file_name on a file to make it executable.
K M Rakibul Islam's updated code contains an unnecessary detach command at the end which causes an error message "no client found" (my_session has already been detached and thus is not in scope so tmux cannot understand which session you want to detach). The correct code should be:
#!/bin/bash
tmux new-session -d -s my_session 'ruby run.rb'
With some experimenting, I figured out how to control tmux via shell script.
tmux new-session -d -s htop-session 'htop'; # start new detached tmux session, run htop
tmux split-window; # split the detached tmux session
tmux send 'htop -t' ENTER; # send 2nd command 'htop -t' to 2nd pane. I believe there's a `--target` option to target specific pane.
tmux a; # open (attach) tmux session.
The above splits the tmux session into two window, and runs htop in both.
To answer original question, you can run a ruby script and not detached the tmux session with command below:
tmux new-session -s ruby_session 'ruby run.rb'; # open tmux session and run ruby script.
You could use teamocil to do this easily. You could just create a YAML file:
windows:
- name: rubysession
root: ~
layout: tiled
panes:
- ruby run.rb; tmux detach
If you named it 'rubysession.yml' then run:
teamocil rubysession
And that would work perfectly for your purpose and require no hacks. Also teamocil is awesome for loads of other uses!
If you want to keep your tmux session alive after starting some commands, a possible solution is to start a bash with an init file:
tmux new -d -s mysession "bash --init-file foo.script"
where foo.script would contain your commands. Alternatively, you can feed the command to the shell directly from the command line:
tmux new -d -s mysession2 "bash --init-file <(echo ruby run.rb)"
Note that --init-file was meant for reading system wide initialization files like /etc/bash.bashrc so you might want to 'source' these in your script.
I am not sure if this is still interesting for you, but I like to give you an answer / hint: in case you want, for example, start multiple tmux sessions by shell script and execute some command, you can do it like follow:
# just for test and show case
mkdir test_1 test_2
echo "current tmux sessions"
tmux ls
echo "kill all tmux sessions"
tmux kill-server
declare -a directories=("test_1" "test_2")
for i in "${directories[#]}"
do
cd ${i}
pwd
tmux new -d -s ${i} "ls -la"
cd ..
done
For the demonstration, the script will create a folder test_1 and test_2. After that I have defined an array with the two folders and run through the two folders and start a tmux session with the current folder name and execute the command "ls -la".
If you like to run through all sub directories in your current directory, please replace "for i in "${directories[#]}" with "for f in *; do". Here is an example that also exclude symbolic folders:
echo "current tmux sessions"
tmux ls
echo "kill all tmux sessions"
tmux kill-server dependencies
for f in *; do
if [[ -d "$f" && ! -L "$f" ]]; then
cd ${f}
pwd
tmux new -d -s ${i} "ls -la"
cd ..
fi
done
Here is a link to the gist file: https://gist.github.com/AICDEV/cf1497793bb1c27cb9b94d56c209ad6f
I already know how to open a terminal in a bash with gnome-terminal and execute a program:
gnome-terminal -e ./OpenBTSCLI
But I also need that once open that program in the new terminal, write another command inside.
When a I tried to use echo, the message appear in the terminal where I run the bash.
I tried: gnome-terminal -e "bash -c './OpenBTSCLI && echo message'" that I find online but its not working, it only do the first part.
Anyone have an idea of how to resolve this? Thank you
I think it does the second command as well, but the new terminal closes as soon as the command's finished, so you don't see it. I reversed the order of quotes and added a 1s sleep at the end to allow seeing the echo.
gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c "./OpenBTSCLI && echo message && sleep 1"'