MacOS – How to schedule run of .command file (bash)

I wrote an answer to a question about scheduling jobs that could solve a few of the issues for you. That was mostly for a one off time though versus ongoing.

If you have an ongoing job, like one that you would have scheduled through iCal, launchd will work nicely as well.

But if you want an outright replacement to something similar to what you did with iCal/Calendar, it sounds like this great writeup on the Apple Discussions board explains using Automator's 'Calendar Alarm'. One user even said that this new way is even easier to use. I personally think with the extra power of Automator, it also adds new power.

From that site:

Here's a solution that works for me:

1. In Automator, create a Calendar Alarm
2. Select Utilities from the library pane
3. Select & drag Run AppleScript into the workflow area
4. Copy/paste the AppleScript into the Run AppleScript box
5. Save the newly created Calendar Alarm
6. Open Calendar.app, create a new event
7. Select the Automator calendar as your reference calendar
8. Select Open File for the alert, and select the file you created in Automator. By default, iCal is the file that comes up when you select Open File.
9. Change that to the name of the Automator app you created.
10. Select Other if the file name isn't shown.

The user attached some screenshots to their post, as well, but I have included a screenshot of what needs to be selected in Automator.

Do you have a ~/.bash_profile? If so, then that will be preferred over the ~/.profile startup script. Next, verify the setting of your path (echo $PATH). Also (and this may be a dumb question) are you actually logged in as GuardDog_02? In other words, is ~ identical to /Users/GuardDog_02?