This is the same process I used to create the alias (on MacOS 10.13.6, a bit behind yours).
It was not creating the alias that required me to run the script. When I double click on my alias, the script opens in Text Editor instead of running in Terminal. Unlike a windows shortcut or Linux launcher, the alias doesn't have a property to let you specify the program you want to open the file in. In order to get the script to run in Terminal, I had to do the steps I described to define "open with" for the script file (not the alias file). This is the procedure where I had to actually run the script in order to specify the "open with" program. Once I had done that, I could double click on the script (or on the alias) and it would run in Terminal. I actually don't know if this now applies to all files on the system with the .sh extension, or just the one script file. The alias works in any location where it's located. I believe this is just a symbolic link like ln.
After having set the "open with" value for the script file, when I double click on the alias file, a terminal window opens, the script runs, and finishes, but I get the [Process completed] message and the Terminal sits there in a non-functional state without the window closing.
This is what I want, I just don't know why the Terminal window closes when the script is finished on your system and stays open on mine. I have run this script on both windows and linux for a long time and I have never seen that before.
LMHmedchem
The fact that you have to take an intermediate step to specify what is to be used to run your script tells me that something is wrong. I'm guessing that you skipped part of the 1st step I mentioned in post #5. Please show us the output from the commands:
where script is the name of the file containing your shell script.
If the mode of script doesn't allow you to execute it OR if the first line of script isn't #!/path/to/interpreter, then script is not an executable shell script file.
The link Finder is creating for me is not a hard link as would be created by ln nor a soft link as would be created by ln -s; it is a binary executable file that directly invokes terminal to run script or to run /path/to/interpreter /path/to/script.
For a small script i want it so that the terminal closes when the script has completed its tasks.
To do so i use at the end if the script the following:
echo "Hello, World!"
echo "Knowledge is power."
echo ""
echo "shutting down terminal in 10 seconds"
exit 10
however the terminal stay's... (3 Replies)
Well. I was recently given access to my work's machine via SSH. I'm pretty sure it's a SUSE machine, uname -a gives
Linux machinename 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-bigsmp #1 SMP Fri Sep 4 01:28:03 UTC 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
I'm not doing anything all that exciting, mostly data entry stuff.
We... (14 Replies)
Is there a trick to closing a mac terminal with a command? I would think you could just type exit into your terminal but that doesn't work. I also tried quit and close just for the hell of it and that didn't work either. Does anyone know what the command is? (1 Reply)
Dear all,
We have a service that we start up remotely with rsh but unfortunately, the rsh never returns to the calling server. This seems to be because the processes of the service we've just started hold the port open.RBATTE1 @ /home/RBATTE1>netstat -na|grep 49.51
tcp4 0 0 ... (1 Reply)
Hi, I have written a script that allows me to repetitively play a music file $N times, which is specified through user input. However, if I want to exit the script before it has finished looping $N times, if I use CTRL+c, I have to CTRL+c however many times are left in order to complete the loop.... (9 Replies)
Heyas,
Since this question (similar) occur every now and then, and given the fact i was thinking about it just recently (1-2 weeks) anyway, i started to write something :p
The last point for motivation was... (17 Replies)
Hello everyone!
I'm developing a MacOs Application in python and I'm having some issues trying to find information related to the power button pressed event. I know that in Ubuntu 14.04 you can find information about it on the acpi folders, but I realized that here in Mac that process is... (0 Replies)
Some hackers found a security hole in macOS High Sierra and tweeted it to the world before telling Apple about the problem. You can see the details from PC Magazine's daily news here: Apple Releases Fix for MacOS High Sierra 'Root' Bug. The original story this morning was published before a patch... (6 Replies)
Hello,
I have the following script that just archives and clears some log files.
#!/bin/bash
# script: archive_logs_and_clear
# add date to logfile names and copy archive directory
# clear logs
# change to script directory
cd ... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have a backup script that runs an rsync backup to an external drive. I use the script frequently on Windows and Linux and have installed it on a Mac. The script has an option to run shutdown after the backup has completed. Since backup can take hours to run, this is an option that is... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: LMHmedchem
10 Replies
LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
script
SCRIPT(1) BSD General Commands Manual SCRIPT(1)NAME
script -- make typescript of terminal session
SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [-k] [-q] [-t time] [file [command ...]]
DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a typescript of everything printed on your terminal. It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of an
interactive session as proof of an assignment, as the typescript file can be printed out later with lpr(1).
If the argument file is given, script saves all dialogue in file. If no file name is given, the typescript is saved in the file typescript.
If the argument command ... is given, script will run the specified command with an optional argument vector instead of an interactive shell.
Options:
-a Append the output to file or typescript, retaining the prior contents.
-k Log keys sent to program as well as output.
-q Run in quiet mode, omit the start and stop status messages.
-t time Specify time interval between flushing script output file. A value of 0 causes script to flush for every character I/O event. The
default interval is 30 seconds.
The script ends when the forked shell (or command) exits (a control-D to exit the Bourne shell (sh(1)), and exit, logout or control-d (if
ignoreeof is not set) for the C-shell, csh(1)).
Certain interactive commands, such as vi(1), create garbage in the typescript file. The script utility works best with commands that do not
manipulate the screen. The results are meant to emulate a hardcopy terminal, not an addressable one.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variable is utilized by script:
SHELL If the variable SHELL exists, the shell forked by script will be that shell. If SHELL is not set, the Bourne shell is assumed. (Most
shells set this variable automatically).
SEE ALSO csh(1) (for the history mechanism).
HISTORY
The script command appeared in 3.0BSD.
BUGS
The script utility places everything in the log file, including linefeeds and backspaces. This is not what the naive user expects.
It is not possible to specify a command without also naming the script file because of argument parsing compatibility issues.
When running in -k mode, echo cancelling is far from ideal. The slave terminal mode is checked for ECHO mode to check when to avoid manual
echo logging. This does not work when in a raw mode where the program being run is doing manual echo.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD