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Fix HP Communications and Fast User Switching
Authored by: klktrk on Oct 18, '04 12:45:43PM

I would imagine that if you didn't use the .command extension, but rather a shell script extension (such as .sh) for your shell scripts, that the commands would run without opening up a terminal window. The .command extension is registered to Terminal.



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Fix HP Communications and Fast User Switching
Authored by: brianboonstra on Oct 25, '04 05:38:38PM
I had thought so too, but as it turned out, the fact that I had written the scripts in SubEthaEdit meant that SEE was listed as the Creator. Hence, the open command opened the scripts in SEE rather than running them. Metadata hell!

Now, perhaps if one created the scripts in pico or just with a quick cat, the right thing would happen. But I suspect not.

An applescript app might be a better way. Or, one could use the source from WinSwitch as a guide to writing a tool that simply does the right thing.

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