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.
Here is the output,
I also did which just to make sure that bash was were it was expected.
How would MacOS know to read the first line and use that to know that the file is a script that should be run in bash. Is that the default behavior for any file with a .sh extension or does Finder read the first line of every file it opens to look for #!? I believe that you can set the "open with" preference in the file Get Info window as well as in finder.
As far as I can tell with what you are saying, my script file should run in Terminal by double clicking without having to do anything special. I think the problem may be that the first application I opened the file with was the Atom editor and possibly that application did something to set the OS to open .sh files in the editor. My guess is it must be something like that. It runs now as it should.
I was told that I can get the terminal window to close when the script finished by setting a preference in Terminal preferences. It would make sense that this is a MacOS Terminal configuration issue and not an issue with the script or the way the script and window are created.
The backup is running now and I will check on the preferences when the backup is finished.
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)
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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)
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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
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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)