AppleScript – Fix Script Opening Two Terminal Windows

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I coded this little AppleScript using Automator:

tell application "Terminal"
do script "myscript"
end tell

This perfectly works but has a side effect: when I close the window, there's always the Terminal window to close, so there are two windows, the one that executes the script and the Terminal.

Is there any way to have just one window running?

Best Answer

Try:

tell application "Terminal"
    if not (exists window 1) then reopen
    activate
    do script "echo hi" in window 1
end tell

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Figured out how to do it myself based upon adapting the following article.

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050827164648766

Added a line in to run the python command:

on run {input, parameters}
  tell application "Terminal"
    activate
    if (the (count of the window) = 0) or ¬
     (the busy of window 1  = true) then
      tell application "System Events"
        keystroke "n" using command down
      end tell
    end if
    do script "cd \"" & (POSIX path of ¬
     (input as string)) & "\"" in window 1
    do script "python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000" in window 1
  end tell
  return input
end run

Why won’t the AppleScript run as a Service

This is weird, but I have seen at least three people on Apple Support Communities who had this problem when a of process "x" and a tell application "System Events" to are on the same line.

Try this.

on run {input, parameters}
  tell application "System Events"
      tell process "TextWrangler" to set visible to not visible
  end tell
end run

Best Answer

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Why won’t the AppleScript run as a Service

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