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Adam Johns
Adam Johns

Reputation: 36343

Terminal window inside Xcode?

Does Xcode have an area I can open up a terminal shell session inside Xcode? Android Studio has a window you can open up at the bottom by the console logcat window that will start a terminal session. Does Xcode have anything like this?

Upvotes: 113

Views: 133007

Answers (3)

mackworth
mackworth

Reputation: 5953

Relatedly, now in Xcode 8, you can have your program run automatically in Terminal rather than using the Xcode Console. Just go to Edit Scheme > Run > Options and set Console at the bottom to Terminal.

And here's the Xcode 15.0 pulldown version: Xcode 15 pulldown:

Upvotes: 6

Aleksei Minaev
Aleksei Minaev

Reputation: 1568

  1. Create executable shell script with the following contents and save it anywhere

    #!/bin/bash
open -a Terminal "`pwd`"
    • Add execute permissions to your script: $ chmod +x <YourShellScript>
  2. In the Xcode menu bar, Go to Xcode -> Preferences -> Behaviors.
  3. Add a Custom behavior
  4. Name it "Open Terminal", or whatever.
  5. (Optional) Configure a hotkey for the behavior by tapping on the ⌘
  6. (Optional) Input hotkey combination
  7. Checkmark Run, select you script from step 1.
  8. Use it within Xcode.

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Upvotes: 89

Rafał Sroka
Rafał Sroka

Reputation: 40030

Unfortunately there is no such a thing in Xcode. We have to fall back to external Terminal window.

If you really want to do it, you can add a build phase and run script that opens the Terminal - but that might not be what you are looking for.

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Upvotes: 59

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