I am new to shell script and recently wrote a script to open a new terminal window and run defined functions via osascript with "do shell script", but the result showed the command not found. My script is as below:
#!/bin/bash
hello() {
echo "Hello World"
}
openNewWindowAndRun() {
osascript -e "
tell application \"Terminal\"
activate
do script \"$1\"
end tell
"
}
openNewWindowAndRun hello
I have also tried to directly call the hello function in the openNewWindowAndRun but didn't get any luck:
#!/bin/bash
hello() {
echo "Hello World"
}
openNewWindowAndRun() {
osascript -e "
tell application \"Terminal\"
activate
do script \"hello\"
end tell
"
}
openNewWindowAndRun
When I ran the script, it opened the new window successfully but showed the error message:
Does anyone know which part was missed here? Is it possible to pass a defined function as a parameter to osascript? If anyone can give me a hand, that would be great!
Your script will work fine if the function hello()
is defined inside the .bashrc
or .bash_profile
or .zshrc
(depends on which shell you are using).
The issue here is, when you are calling osascript
to create a new terminal, the newly created terminal doesn't know about a function (or command) named hello
.
So, you have to define it in such a way that every newly created terminal knows about that command. So, either you could put it in your .bashrc
or you can create a shell script named hello
in your $PATH
and put the required code in that script.