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Is there a way to make shell-script files (meaning Unix shells: sh,
csh, ksh, etc.) executable by double-clicking that file's icon, by
putting it in the dock or desktop, and so forth?

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Gary Morrison wrote:

Is there a way to make shell-script files (meaning Unix shells: sh,
csh, ksh, etc.) executable by double-clicking that file's icon, by
putting it in the dock or desktop, and so forth?

Give them a .term extension. It will launch a Terminal window for them
to run in when you double-click.

-j


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Entity Jeffrey Goldberg uttered this profundity:

Gary Morrison wrote:

Is there a way to make shell-script files (meaning Unix shells: sh,
csh, ksh, etc.) executable by double-clicking that file's icon, by
putting it in the dock or desktop, and so forth?

Give them a .term extension. It will launch a Terminal window for them
to run in when you double-click.

.command does the same thing. You need to set the executable for the file before it will acquire the right icon.

-- Gnarlie

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In article <C0609C37.17C13%gnarlodious@yahoo.com>,
Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@yahoo.com> wrote:

Entity Jeffrey Goldberg uttered this profundity:

Gary Morrison wrote:

Is there a way to make shell-script files (meaning Unix shells: sh,
csh, ksh, etc.) executable by double-clicking that file's icon, by
putting it in the dock or desktop, and so forth?

Give them a .term extension. It will launch a Terminal window for them
to run in when you double-click.

.command does the same thing. You need to set the executable for the file before it will acquire the right icon.

-- Gnarlie

Which cannot be done from the Finder, IIRC. I know there are several utilities that allow this, like BareBones SuperGetInfo.

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In article <l6E_f.15895$yy4.13958@tornado.texas.rr.com>,
Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net> wrote:

Is there a way to make shell-script files (meaning Unix shells: sh,
csh, ksh, etc.) executable by double-clicking that file's icon, by
putting it in the dock or desktop, and so forth?

as others have said, you can make the script executable (chmod +x
script.name) and name the script with script_name.command

The side effect of this is that it opens a terminal window (which
can be great if your command has output you want to see.

However, if you just want to double click a command to do some
task, or even better be able to drag and drop some files on top of
your script then create a little stub Applescript to run your
shell script

on open filelist
repeat with i in filelist
-- do shell script ¬
-- "my_command " & quoted form of POSIX path of i
do shell script "your.script.file.name.here" & ¬
quoted form of POSIX path of i
end repeat
end open

Bob Harris
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