Tabs in Terminal.app on Leopard
Tabs in Terminal.app on Leopard
- Subject: Tabs in Terminal.app on Leopard
- From: "Matthew Lambie" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 13:42:45 +0900
Hi everyone,
I thought rather than mix in Apple Script and pseudocode together I'd
just post my pseudocode - I hope that's OK. Via Google I've learnt how
to tell Terminal to run a script, so it's more the case of opening new
tabs and checking for focus.
I have two main issues:
- Can you "name" windows via Applescript?
- How do you launch a new tab within Terminal?
For example, I've found this script which will open a Terminal (or use
the first available non-busy Terminal), obtain focus and execute a
command (uptime):
property commandString : "/usr/bin/uptime" -- < Edit this line as desired.
tell application "Terminal" -- Get a free window to run the commandString,
activate -- (being sure to avoid creating a new session unnecessarily,
-- while also handling the possibility that frontmost window is busy):
set windowCount to (count of the windows)
if windowCount is greater than 0 then
repeat with w from 1 to windowCount
if window 1 is busy then
set frontmost of window 1 to false
else
do script commandString in window 1
set frontmost of window 1 to true
return
end if
end repeat
end if
tell window 1
do script commandString
set frontmost to true
end tell
end tell
(script via : http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=359524)
I want to perform the following (pseudocode) with Terminal - can
anyone help me out?:
server_name = "SERVER_NAME"
Open Terminal
if a window called server_name exists
give it focus
else
create a new window
name this window server_name
for i = 1 to 4
create a new tab
execute a command (ssh server_name)
end for
end
The idea is that I'll click an icon and it opens Terminal up, opens 4
tabs and in each tab performs an ssh to SERVER_NAME (and opens a
screen session). Ideally, I'd like to test if the window already
exists and if it does, give it focus. This will prevent the screen
sessions from being "dropped" in the original window and opening again
in the new window, if it exists.
I'd also like to attach the scripts to individual icons, so I can
click on hotrod, prime, soundwave or any other cool Transformers icon
that I have in my dock to represent our servers.
Thanks so much - I'm loving Leopard and Terminal's tabs... I just want
some automation!
Matt Lambie
http://lambie.org
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