Re: Script terminal.app -without- opening a new term window?
Re: Script terminal.app -without- opening a new term window?
- Subject: Re: Script terminal.app -without- opening a new term window?
- From: Charles Bouldin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 15:46:08 -0500
At 2:55 PM -0500 3/14/02, Caleb Strockbine wrote:
On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 02:05 PM, Charles Bouldin wrote:
Is there any way to force terminal to use an existing window? The
reason is that I run a unix cli program from terminal.app and get
grahical output via pgplot in another xwindow. A first cut at putting
an "interface" on the cli program is to use applescripts to run
terminal, and then perhaps use applescript studio to make a simple
GUI. This approach has the great benefit that it leaves the unix
program untouched, but so far I am completely stymied by this
apparent limitation in scripting terminal.
Why does Terminal need to be involved at all? AppleScript can
start a shell process and execute shell commands. As long as
your xwindow client can open the window it needs, I think you'll
be fine.
Example:
do shell script "ls"
The script above returns the output from ls in the result window.
hope that helps,
Caleb Strockbine
Doesn't really help me. I can certainly do something like
do shell script "plotit"
to launch the graphics program, but then how to send commands to it
once the program is running? I tried something like
do shell script "cat temp.dat | plotit" after first putting commands
for plotit into temp.dat, but this gives me an error message "zsh:
permission denied: plotit"....which is funny, because doing the "cat
temp.dat | plotit" from the terminal works fine.
Side note: do shell script invokes zsh, apparently. How do you
specify which shell to use? Can you?
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