Questions tagged [script]
A collection of commands that may be from a CLI Shell, or programming language such as AppleScript, which are executed in order with limited iteration, usually as a way of automating actions or events.
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How to run a cron job using launchd? [duplicate]
I have a simple cron job:
MAILTO=“”
0 9 * * * /path/to/job
My issue with this job being that it won’t run if my Mac isn’t up and running (sleep mode). I read launchd/launchctl may be what I’m looking ...
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Prevent double clicked SH script from being entered into ZSH history on Mac
I've got some SH scripts which I double click to run. The scripts run as intended, after having set the working directory via cd "$(dirname "$0")" at the beginning of the script, ...
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Is Apple Music (the app, not the service) for Windows scriptable? [migrated]
Apple used to support COM as API for iTunes. AFAIK, this support has been officially dropped. Now with Apple Music for Windows on the horizon, is there any information available whether, and if so how,...
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ps return pid/name of process that called script.sh
I am running an app that calls script.sh and I would like to retrieve the invoking app's PID or name within that same script.sh. Ultimately, in my script.sh, I am trying to determine whether the app ...
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Is there a simple way to start a bash script at login or startup WITHOUT revealing the terminal? [duplicate]
I know similar questions have been asked on forums, but due to the constraints of my script, the other solutions are either too complicated or do not work. Please forgive my lack of knowledge in the ...
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Escape control characters in bash script
I need a solution to escape control characters from a string.
What I need is to turn this:
%f4^rH13#b$rHN
into this:
%f4\^rH13\#b\$rHN
I found a solution working with GNU sed on stackoverflow, which ...
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macOS - run bash script when specific URL is clicked
Is it possible to write an AppleScript or macOS service/daemon to detect when a URL is clicked (which would launch the browser) and run a bash script as well/instead? Use case: detect when github.com ...
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Using SummarizeService from Shortcuts
I’d like to build a Shortcut that runs the MacOS Summarize service on some text input.
It looks like there’s no built-in support for summarizing text in Shortcut so I’m curious if I can make a ...
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Download file from iCloud/GoogleDrive from Terminal or script
I use Ventura with iCloud and also GoogleDrive.
I have some files in iCloud, not physically available on my MacBook, but I could right-click on it and click to "download now" (basically OS ...
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Shell script application bundle prompts for Rosetta installation
I exported the following line of AppleScript code into an macOS application via the "Script Editor":
do shell script "open '/Applications/Google Chrome.app' --args --proxy-server=...
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How to Implement a Dictionary Look Up Script on Mac and Save to History Log: Need Help with Syntax Errors
After several times of having my MacBook shutdown and losing the several tabs I had opened of the words I looked up, I've started to look for a solution.
I'm currently trying to implement a script ...
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Query whether MacBook is plugged or on battery from shell script
I am writing a shell script that I will leave running in background for some syncing tasks. I would like this script to behave differently depending on whether my MacBook is plugged to a power source, ...
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Script to run Apple Inbox Rules
Note: I am not asking how to create a rule which runs an Applescript. I want to go the other way around: run a script that will apply existing rules to all the messages in the inbox. That is, simulate
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Automator workflow crashing silently when ran as Finder extension
I made an Automator workflow that essentially runs a shell script to optimize images. I intend to use it as a Finder.app extension, by selecting images and running the workflow as a "quick action&...
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How do I use launchctl to hook a shell script to a login / logout event?
I have been trying to get a shell script to fire on login / logout events on a Mac, but the method I used is very old, and it does not work. I followed this StackExchange post and used the
sudo ...
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A script that opens .py types in values required
First a bit of backstory, when I do python assignments I had to manually add inventory items again and again which was painful so I wrote a shell script which would start my python program and enter ...
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How do I point the mkdir to the Desktop using bin/zsh? I am on macOS $HOME
How do I make this create the directory on my Mac desktop rather than the home folder alone.
mkdir -p "$HOME/${digits}_${date}"
Right now it goes to /Users/name/
I need it to go one more ...
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How do I create a desktop icon for launching a script that doesn’t exit terminal
I created a desktop alias for a ruby script that launches the script with no arguments and when it opens it says exit saving session and leaves the terminal open not allowing me to input arguments. I ...
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Undentified shell script "open" added to open at login
Logged in into my laptop this morning, to see that a shell script "open" has been added to open at login. Its from an unidentified developer, created a month back, but just got added to ...
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Editing Volume limit script on Mac
this is the script I use from this article https://medium.com/trabe/limiting-your-macs-volume-in-2019-f314e20408ab . It works perfectly.
constructor(appName, maxVolume) {
this.app = Application....
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Mac Automator - When given a folder containing many files with the same name format, organise the folder with new sub-folders [duplicate]
So I have a folder which contains many .mp3 and .cdg files (setting up a Karaoke system 😅)
All of the files follow the same naming system:
Artist - Song name [Karaoke]
Rather than having all of the ...
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Create similar to .exe file for mac os [duplicate]
I need create a non reable executable script for mac os.
Example. I have .exe for windows user and they cant open and see the source code. Similarly i need to create executable application for mac os.
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How to create an app from a .command file? [duplicate]
I have a MyMacVim.command file with this content:
source ~/.zshrc
/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/bin/mvim
Is it possible to create an app, say MyMacVim.app, from MyMacVim.command that I can place ...
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Compiled Javascript for Automation (JXA) script does not show applications
I wrote a small script to sync one folder to another as a Javascript for Automation script.
If I run it directly from terminal:
$ osascript -l JavaScript myscript.js
then it works as supposed - the ...
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If/then statement comparing OSX app to specific version
Having trouble making a simple script that outputs if the version matches or if it doesn't. Using VS Code as an example.
I input this in terminal:
osascript -e 'version of app "Visual Studio Code&...
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How can I determine the volume name of the default boot disk from Terminal?
I have some shell scripts that need to access paths under /Volumes/ e.g. /Volumes/MyDisk/tmp/foo.json. Right now the scripts have hardcoded volume names. I would like to make them portable so they run ...
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How to stop dotnet run command?
I have written a script to build and run my dotnet project but it seems I am not able to stop it. The code I wrote is below.
do shell script "eval $(/usr/libexec/path_helper -s)
cd /Users/...
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Reset Mac Login Password Using Shell Script Without putting Old/Existing Password (forgotten password)
I'd like to script password changes where I don't know the existing admin password and tried unsuccessfully:
dscl . -passwd /Users/[user short name] [password]
When I hit enter, it still asks the ...
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How to run multi-line curl statement from a script in terminal?
I am attempting to run a curl statement that I copied from Chrome DevTools. The statement has a bunch of Header parameters.
If I paste this into a Terminal window, it works great.
If I drop this into ...
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Issue running command in cronjob but works as a regular command [duplicate]
I'm trying to run a yt-dlp command inside a cronjob but am having trouble. The command runs fine when run as a regular terminal command but inside a cronjob it fails. I've included an image of the ...
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How can you launch emoji viewer via osascript?
I'd like to add a mapping in neovide. And one way to do it by by remapping <C-D-Space> and run the script that opens the emoji viewer programatically.
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Using text document of whitespace containing filenames to batchcopy between directories in Terminal [closed]
I am using terminal in MacOS Ventura. I want to have a textfile of files which I will copy using the terminal. This won't work when spaces are in the filenames.
A=~/Documents/test1
B=~/Documents/test2
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run second script in a new terminal window [duplicate]
I have two scripts; script_1 and script_2, the latter must receive 2 parameters. Before finishing script_1 I want it to call and execute script_2 in a new terminal window and pass it the 2 ...
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Automator SCRIPT help!: Select name of file, find file with containing name, then copy this item in another folder
I have 3 folders:
JPG folder; contains my modified JPG files, filename example: AKK05140.jpg
RAW folder: contains my RAW files, filename example: AKK05140.RAW
DESTINATION folder (Edited RAW files): ...
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How can I execute a shell command just before login screen?
I apologize if the question has already been asked. macOS Monterey.
For a few days now, the blinking cursor of the login screen is not blinking anymore, so I can't type any character and I can't logon....
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Problem with Apple Shortcuts with operation not permitted on script
I'm new to macOS and Linux-based systems (and I'm also not an IT guy, just having fun learning basic stuff from many fields), and I wanted to make a shortcut with the Apple Shortcut application to ...
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macOS: Double click on a file and display the output from a CLI command on the file?
There is a file type called "netCDF". My goal is to be able to double click on a netCDF file on Finder and see the text output from a CLI command to which the filename is given.
Specifics: ...
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Force reset system preferences cache
I'm trying to enable/disable time announcement feature that's present in Dock & Menu Bar > Clock > Announce the time with a shell script.
When I read the plist file, I can see that it's set ...
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AppleScript: How to do shell script with admin privileges that only asks for password on first run/never?
I'm trying to write an AppleScript that will update the schedule boot/wake time of computer to be a hour from the time the script is run. My script below works, but every time I run it, I'm asked for ...
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Cannot run shell script from mounted network share: unidentified developer
We have a few shared shell scripts on our file server, and would like them to run in Terminal when double-clicked in the Finder.
The share is mounted, and the scripts do run when called by their full ...
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Mac software update app automatically open if update are already downloaded and install and require user
Script to Lauch Mac software update app automatically.
eq if we have monterey12.3 and on softwareupdate.plist shows availble as 12.4 then open mac software update app
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Script to restart application
I need to restart an application once a day because it has memory leak and it ends up consuming several Gig of memory after a few days. Poor programming perhaps, but the developer wasn't able to ...
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xargs: Operation not permitted when calling bash script from fswatch event
I'm trying to watch a certain folder and run a script if there is a change to the folder. For this, I'm using below fswatch command (OS is Monterey [12.0.1]):
fswatch -o ~/Desktop/iosBuildZips | xargs ...
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How to rotate between multiple app windows using Hammerspoon?
My current code for switching to a desired app is this:
hs.hotkey.bindSpec( { hyper , "k"},
function()
hs.application.launchOrFocus("Visual Studio Code")
end
)
But I have ...
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On Mac, how can I move the mouse to the current caret / cursor location?
Is it possible to use AppleScript, cliclick, or a similar CLI tool to move the mouse pointer to the current location of the blinking cursor?
For example, imagine the cursor is blinking at the position ...
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Script executed when application Bluestacks is deleted from Trash
I just noticed something interesting when uninstalling Bluestacks on MacOS Monterey.
I dragged the app to the trash and when I clicked empty trash, there was a prompt to allow to run a sh script. I ...
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How do you make a .command file autostart on system bootup?
I'm on macOS Monterey 12.4.
How do you make a .command file autostart on system bootup?
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How to get the ${DISPLAY} outside of the X environment
I would like to make a shell script and an Applescript script to fire an
X environment command when this environment is active ( through XQuartz for example ). But not just upon starting the X ...
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Change Display Scaling mode from 'Default' to 'More Space' in terminal/script
I find myself switching between macOS scaling modes often, depending on what I'm doing. Some tasks require me to use the 'More Space' option, while I prefer regular browsing and use in the Default ...
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Automator: move files to a dynamically created folder name from subfolder
I'm trying to move downloaded files to a new folder(Get name from subfolder files).
Example:
Parent Folder
├── 160x600-SubFolder1.1
│ ├── AnotherSubFolderEN-Test display_a98765bcd0e12345fg
│ │ └...
