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Re: Terminal Scripting
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Re: Terminal Scripting


  • Subject: Re: Terminal Scripting
  • From: Graff <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:19:04 -0500

On Feb 27, 2004, at 11:21 PM, Graff wrote:

On Feb 27, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Martin Orpen wrote:

on 28/2/04 12:34 am, Graff at email@hidden wrote:

Ok, because Terminal doesn't seem to support the standard suite of
AppleScript commands I found myself unable to create new windows within
it. I have found a workaround however. Just run an empty script, that
will cause a window to open in front of all other windows:
do script ""

Are we using different versions of Terminal?

Terminal produces a new window every time you send a command:

tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script "find . -name '*.scpt' -print"
end tell

Opens a new window every time on my Mac - and finds the scripts I thought
I'd lost :-)

Yes, it opens a window. However I had several problems. For example:

This script will call up 2 windows, not one window with 2 commands.
----------------
tell application "Terminal"
do script "cd ~/Desktop/"
do script "ls -l"
end tell
----------------

And yes, I know I could have written it this way:

----------------
tell application "Terminal"
do script "cd ~/Desktop/; ls -l"
end tell
----------------

I didn't do this because I was trying to see how to deal with getting multiple, separate commands to show up in a single terminal window.

- Ken
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 >Re: Terminal Scripting (From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Terminal Scripting (From: Graff <email@hidden>)

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