Also, using -9 seems a bit excessive. I would think that the normal default term signal would be enough for Terminal to quit. That is, unless you have it configured to warn you about processes still running in the terminal windows, but you can turn that warning off in Terminal's preferences.

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I figured that a -HUP signal will close 'em ... Larry.
(Yeah, tell everyone never to -KILL !)

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Typing "exit" or "quit" plus a return is 5 characters to type!

Just use CMD+Q which is 2 characters to type.

Isn't this easier? Am I missing something?

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-9 is definitely excessive, as it doesn't allow the program to free resources it's using when it receives the signal.

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command line history may be toasted by quitting sans shell exit.

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Even doing a kill or killall without the -9 is abrupt. It doesn't allow Terminal.app to do it's normal checking of whether there are processes still running that you may care about. Why not tell the terminal to quit a a more appleish way? Use AppleEvents.

alias quit='/usr/bin/osascript -e "tell application \"terminal\" to quit"'

If you want something that you can always run when you're done with a window, which will quit Terminal.app in the event it was the last window, a larger script might be in order. First create this AppleScript:

tell application "Terminal"
	if (count of (every window whose visible is true)) <= 1 then
		quit
	else
		close window 1
	end if
end tell

Then just alias it to whatever command you want and add osascript to the list of ignored processes under the Processes section of the window settings.

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jon

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If you don't want to remember to type "quit" instead of "exit", and you're using bash, just add the following to your .bashrc or other shell startup script:

trap '/usr/bin/osascript -e "tell application \"terminal\" to quit"' 0

What's it do? When the shell receives signal 0 (zero), that is, told to exit, it will execute this command as the last thing it does. This allows your shell, etc, to exit gracefully, and asking Terminal.app to exit via applescript makes sure it does the same. In other words, type 'exit', and your shell exits, then Terminal quits, all cleanly and the way nature intended.

Note:You'll need to add login, bash, and osascript to the exclude list under "Prompt before closing window" or terminal will whine at you before exiting. Or you could just choose "Never".

Something similar is surely possible with tcsh...but I have no idea how.

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