What's The Easiest Route To Creating A Unix Executable File for Terminal? - Page 2

tlarkin · #6 (**permalink**) 04-04-2008

You may want to look into the newest version of Textwrangler for OS X, I believe it has built in scripting features that allow you to write scripts and make them executable. If that is what you are looking to do.

unimachead · #7 (**permalink**) 04-08-2008

Wow, thanks tlarkin. You know I've seen this app before, but I just hadn't taken time to download it and play with it. I appreciate the tip, and I'll give it a whirl.

tlarkin · #8 (**permalink**) 04-24-2008

sorry for the late follow up, but depending on what you want to do, you may want to make a launchd item.

That way it will run as a system daemon and always run, depending on what you want to accomplish.

unimachead · #9 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by tlarkin

sorry for the late follow up, but depending on what you want to do, you may want to make a launchd item.

That way it will run as a system daemon and always run, depending on what you want to accomplish.

I'll give it a shot, thanks for the tip. -UMH

tlarkin · #10 (**permalink**) 04-30-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by unimachead

I'll give it a shot, thanks for the tip. -UMH

Basically, Apple decided to get rid of all other launch daemons and have one to rule them all, launchd. You can write a script and toss it, in lets say, /usr/sbin/myscript.sh

Next you can create a launchd item that will run at log in or start up for every user by placing the .plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons

example:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>com.tlarkin.myscript.sh.plist</string>
	<key>Nice</key>
	<integer>-9</integer>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>/usr/sbin/myscript.sh</string>
	</array>
	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
	<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

If you want it to run for specific users, you toss it in ~/Library/LaunchAgents for that particular user.

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