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Old 11-12-2009
Terminal.app keeps creating copies of my settings files
Under Leopard, I like to conveniently open Terminal windows onto remote systems. I've created several settings files in Terminal, one for each remote system that I want to access. To open window, I right-click on the Terminal icon in the Dock, expand the "New Window" menu item, and select the remote system I want to connect to. This has worked very well for me for years.

Today I tried to improve the process. I created a shell script for each remote system. Each script contains a single line like

open /Library/Application Support/Terminal/system-abc.terminal

I created the system-abc.terminal files by doing Terminal->Shell->Export Settings... When I execute the shell script, a new Terminal window pops up as expected. This is great - now I can execute the shell script from Quicksilver, so I have a way to open Terminals with a few keystrokes.

This works quite well, but it has an unfortunate side effect. Whenever I execute the shell script, a new menu item gets added to Terminal's list of remote systems. In other words, after executing the above script once and then right-click on the Terminal icon in the dock, and expand "New Window", I find a brand-new thing in the list. The new thing is called "system-abc 1". If I run the script again, I find another new thing named "system-abc 2". Etc.

So it works, but it clutters up the list of remote systems. Is this a bug in Terminal?
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Test::Unit::Runner::Terminal(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			 Test::Unit::Runner::Terminal(3pm)

NAME

       Test::Unit::Runner::Terminal - unit testing framework helper class

SYNOPSIS

	   use Test::Unit::Runner::Terminal;

	   my $testrunner = Test::Unit::Runner::Terminal->new();
	   $testrunner->start($my_test_class);

DESCRIPTION

       This class is a test runner for the command line style use of the testing framework.

       It is similar to its parent class, Test::Unit::TestRunner, but it uses terminal escape sequences to continually update a more informative
       status report as the runner progresses through the tests than just a string of dots, E's and F's.  The status report indicates the number
       of tests run, the number of failures and errors encountered, which test is currently being run, and where it lives in the suite hierarchy.

       The class needs one argument, which is the name of the class encapsulating the tests to be run.

OPTIONS

       -wait
	   wait for user confirmation between tests

       -v  version info

AUTHOR

       Copyright (c) 2000-2002, 2005 the PerlUnit Development Team (see Test::Unit or the AUTHORS file included in this distribution).

       All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       o   Test::Unit::TestCase

       o   Test::Unit::Listener

       o   Test::Unit::TestSuite

       o   Test::Unit::Result

       o   Test::Unit::TkTestRunner

       o   For further examples, take a look at the framework self test collection (t::tlib::AllTests).

perl v5.8.8							    2006-09-13					 Test::Unit::Runner::Terminal(3pm)