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Is there a way to run a shell script using Spotlight on Mac OS X 10.6? I would like to be able to invoke a shell script directly from Spotlight without opening up a terminal.
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Instead of typing the full path, you can drag the script onto the Terminal window from Finder. Then, to execute, just enter /path/to/script . Again, you can drag and drop the file onto the Terminal window. This syntax should execute the script using the correct shell as defined on the first line of the script.
Save your shell script with a .command suffix - this makes it double-clickable and you should also be able to run it directly from Spotlight too.
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I would also like to add, if you need the terminal window to disappear after running the command, you can set the terminal settings to do just that.
It's under settings >> shell >> when the shell exits.
This will still leave Terminal running but the script will at least clean up after itself.
I used this for writing a script to hide and show desktop icons.
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