You could just do the script in the shell as well and skip automater.
Just put each command line by line in a text file and then modify the
text file to be executable with
chmod a+x
after that you can just run that text file and it will execute all the
commands inside as though you had typed them. I often use this for
repetitive tasks and just name the file "g" for "Go". One tricky bit is
the shell will look in certain places (directory paths) for files to run
and often times this is not your present directory. So unless I add the
present directory (usually denoted as a dot or period) to my path I have
to specify it when doing my "g" command:
./g
If you want I can give you the commands to add . to your path and avoid
the ./ nonsense.
CB
On 11/29/11 8:52 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
Hi all,
I would love to create a script or what ever that I can call up to perform a
series of terminal commands. I had a look at the automator and found a record
option to type in all the steps. I performed the actions but when I tried to
run the action got an error. I suspect that the key sequence goes to fast since
it is saying that terminal is not running when it was expected to.
Any ideas how to do this or where to look for prewritten scripts I can modify?
Is the script editor a better option than automator?
I have no formal scripting experience but have read and written jaws scripts
using their manual but really nothing fancy.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Ioana
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