How to create a shortcut to IPython’s interactive shell on the dock

One way to do this is with AppleScript.

Open AppleScript Editor (/Applications/Utilities) and type this in:

do shell script "open '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'  --args --explicitly-allowed-ports=6666"

Save it as an Application, and add that application to the Dock.
Click on the app's icon and you Chrome will open with your custom parameters.

This way works, but it isn't exactly ideal for a couple reasons:

• Running the AppleScript will take a little longer than just opening the app
• You'll have two icons in your dock (the script and Chrome)

This will work, but I'm interested to see if someone comes up with a better answer.

Your app does start the process and then quits itself straight away leaving the process running.

You could try and check in the Automator action to see if the process is running. if it is quit it, if it is not launch it.

 isRunning=`ps aux | grep -i "Textedit.app"| grep -v grep`

    if [ $isRunning -eq "" ]; then 
        echo "is Not Running" 

/abspath/to/my-command
    else
        echo "is Running"  

# terminate code  here
    fi;

So when you click the App in the Dock. to will either start the process or stop it.