Ian,
Apple script might be able to interract with the Terminal app itself. But it
really depends on what you are trying to achieve. If Terminal has a
dictionary, then you can use those objects, methods, properties to work with
Terminal. Since I am not on my MAC. I cannot tell you straight away if this
is possible at all.
Be aware, Apple Script isn't a quick learning curve due to the nature of the
syntax and information you have to find out about in regards to an App. A
good book is really necessary if you are not used to Apple script or
programming.
Before anyone can give you a good direction. You need to let us know what
your goal is.
In terminal you are accessing the CLI which is BSD Unix which the MAC is
based upon. Inside this world you have many different options to choose
from.
such as Bash shell scripting, Perl, ruby, etc. But this isn't interacting
with the Terminal. Rather you are using the Unix OS directly.
Looking forward to here from you.
Sean
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From: "Ioana Gandrabur" <igandra...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: where to start i I want to automate terminal commands
Hi,
Thanks for the tips. I am afraid I don't know about shell and chmod.
Sorry for being so clueless. Any pointers are as usually very appreciated.
Take care,
Ioana
On Nov 30, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
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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