MacOS – Run Terminal Command from .terminal file

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I just figured out how to export settings from terminal which creates a .terminal file. And I realize that the ExecutionString parameter has changed to the CommandString parameter.

I put a command in the string tags and it worked but it jumped straight to [Process Completed] after it was done. Is there anyway to get it to give me a new prompt line for more commands?

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In the .terminal file, RunCommandAsShell should not be set to <true/>.

This correlates to the "Run inside shell" checkbox in the "Shell" section of the preference window; which is more intuitively named.

When the preference is not selected (RunCommandAsShell is true), then the default shell is replaced with whatever command you've used. If the preference is selected (RunCommandAsShell is either false or not listed in the .terminal file), then the command is run after the default shell is loaded for that Terminal window/tab.

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To find what was added to your profiles, I ran these commands.

mac $ curl http://data.biostarhandbook.com/install/bash_profile.txt > ~/seebash_profile
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    89  100    89    0     0    513      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   514
mac $ curl http://data.biostarhandbook.com/install/bashrc.txt > ~/seebashrc
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   759  100   759    0     0  17574      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 17651
mac $ cat seebash_profile 
#
# Source the settings from .bashrc.
#
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
   source ~/.bashrc
fi
mac $ cat seebash_profile 
#
# Source the settings from .bashrc.
#
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
   source ~/.bashrc
fi
mac $

You get two copies of these lines in each file. You should get rid of one copy in each file. nano is a simple editor you can use to edit these files.

https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-use-nano-text-editor/

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