I also tried assigning the Terminal app to another virtual desktop in the Spaces settings in an attempt to move it out of sight, but then it will just first switch to that desktop before running the script. exit' to the end of any script you run to close the shell and Terminal window when finished. (EDIT: this behaviour was actually caused by a bug in my script, see below) A quick setting change may help reduce window clutter for OS X Terminal users. This seems counter-intuitive for an OS that is famed for its user interaction.
#OS X SHELL SCRIPT CLOSE TERMINAL WINDOW MAC#
app directory, which solves the problem of the superfluous terminal window, but has some other issues (for example OS X seems to treat each resulting iTerm window as a separate app, cluttering my dock). Mac Admins have to work a lot in Terminal. The terminal window doesn't appear if I run the script directly from another terminal.Ī workaround I found was to wrap the script in an. See the Toolbox App announcement for more details. The path to the default shell is stored in the user record. (See the 'osascript' man page on Apples website for more details.
#OS X SHELL SCRIPT CLOSE TERMINAL WINDOW MAC OS X#
Even though we have installed bash v5, the default shell of a new Terminal window will still use the built-in bash v3. When you run this command from the Mac OS X Unix shell, it displays a dialog with the text Yada yada yada, as shown in this figure: In short, osascript lets you execute AppleScripts and other OSA language scripts. from Finder, or as a keyboard shortcut from BetterTouchTool). Edit (April 2020): It seems that launcher script creation is now managed in Toolbox App settings. Scripting OS X: On the Shebang Scripting OS X: Setting the PATH in Scripts Changing a user’s default Shell to bash v5. The problem is that OS X insists to open a Terminal window for any shell script you execute through the GUI (i.e. I'm trying to set up a few keyboard shortcuts that open specific iTerm sessions, which I was able to do with BetterTouchTool and a bit of AppleScript magic.
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