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AndroidDev

Reputation: 21237

OSX shell script open new terminal window and run program

I'm trying to write a short shell script to open a new terminal window and launch a program. Here is what I have:

osascript <<END
tell application "Terminal"
    make new window
    activate
    set contents of window to "./hello" & return
end tell
END

execution error: Terminal got an error: AppleEvent handler failed. (-10000)

Can anyone tell me how to do this? In a perfect world, I'd also like this script to run on Linux, so if there is a method that will be portable, that would be preferable.

Thank you!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5487

Answers (2)

Lri
Lri

Reputation: 27593

The do script command runs a command in a new Terminal window:

osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to do script "uptime"'

Upvotes: 5

michael501
michael501

Reputation: 1482

something like this :

 osascript<<EOF
tell application "System Events"
  tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down
end
tell application "Terminal"
  activate
  do script with command "./hello" in window 1
end tell
EOF

Upvotes: 1

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