Invoking a terminal command in Terminal.app from a Worksheet

[Greg Raven]

This is probably very simple, but each of my attempts has failed.

I have a worksheet that opens  CodeKit and GitHub Desktop, but I'd also like it to open Terminal and create a PHP server, too.

I can create the server from a worksheet command, but I would prefer that it be do in the Terminal.

I created a separate .sh file with the appropriate PHP command for creating the server, but I can't figure out how to call it.

Any thoughts?

[Fletcher Sandbeck]

You can execute a command in the terminal with Applescript like this:

tell application "Terminal"

do script "echo foo"

end tell

You can execute an AppleScript in the terminal with osascript. You include each line of the script as a separate -e parameter. Putting those together this runs a one line echo in the Terminal.

osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\"" -e "do script \"echo foo\"" -e "end tell"

Hope this helps,

[fletcher]

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[Greg Raven]

Excellent. Thanks.

On Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 9:14:20 AM UTC-7, flet...@cumuli.com wrote:

You can execute a command in the terminal with Applescript like this:

tell application "Terminal"

do script "echo foo"

end tell

You can execute an AppleScript in the terminal with osascript. You include each line of the script as a separate -e parameter. Putting those together this runs a one line echo in the Terminal.

osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\"" -e "do script \"echo foo\"" -e "end tell"

Hope this helps,

[fletcher]

On Jun 20, 2020, at 8:52 AM, Greg Raven <greg...@gmail.com> wrote:

This is probably very simple, but each of my attempts has failed.

I have a worksheet that opens  CodeKit and GitHub Desktop, but I'd also like it to open Terminal and create a PHP server, too.

I can create the server from a worksheet command, but I would prefer that it be do in the Terminal.

I created a separate .sh file with the appropriate PHP command for creating the server, but I can't figure out how to call it.

Any thoughts?

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