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Obviously, that warning is there for a reason, so it’s really your call if you want to do this. If you add “pwsh” to that list of applications, the terminal won’t ask you for confirmation if you want to close the window.
To make this window go away, and save you another five keystrokes, look at the bottom of the “Shell” tab of the “Preferences” window, in the “Ask when closing” section. In fact, you may even want to put “ pwsh exit” (without the quotes) in the “Run command” field – this will terminate the bash shell automatically when the pwsh process ends, so typing “exit” in Powershell will close the window.Īnother slight annoyance is that when you want to close the window, technically the “pwsh” process is still running (unless you type “exit”), so you’ll get a friendly confirmation dialog that you’ll have to deal with: The “Run inside shell” checkbox needs to be enabled! You can set a custom command to start when you open a terminal window with this profile: enter pwsh in the “Run command” field at the top, and now, every time you open a window with this profile, it starts Powershell Core automatically, saving you all of five keystrokes. What you can do is, you can create a separate profile for your Powershell Core stuff, customize all those colors, fonts, and what-not.
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You probably already know that you can customize the Mac Terminal to death, and you may even have noticed that you can create different profiles for different purposes:
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So wouldn’t it be cool if we could launch our Powershell Core in the stylish blue world of bliss that Windows users have become so accustomed to? Setting up a color profile The first thing you’ll notice is that this doesn’t really play well if you’re using a white background, as the output is often light grey, yellow or even white.
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If you didn’t know, Powershell isn’t exclusive to Windows anymore – you can actually run a basic set of Powershell features, called Powershell Core, on Mac OS and Linux as well.īy default, running the “pwsh” command just starts Powershell Core in a regular terminal window. By using a unique file for each new window it can be used to create many windows at the same time.I just recently had the opportunity to sit with Aaron Nelson and go through some really cool Powershell features, and I’m certainly going to spend time getting to know Powershell a lot better. It does some fancy things like pass your arguments, change the title bar, clear the screen to remove shell startup clutter, remove its file when its done. Then you can run commands in a new window by just adding trun before them, like this: trun tail -f /var/log/system.log Make sure it is executable like this: chmod +x ~/bin/trun I suggest putting it in a directory in your executable path. Set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims Set theString to the parsedList as string Set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "'\\''" Set the parsedList to every text item of theString Set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "'" Set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters This simply quotes all occurrences of ' and puts the whole thing between 's Set thePath to (POSIX path of the source_folder as string)
Tell application "Finder" to set the source_folder to (folder of the front window) as alias We need to delay, terminal ignores the second do script otherwiseĭo script " cd " & myPath in front window Tell application "System Events" to set isRunning to (exists process "Terminal") If Terminal was not running, one will be opened automatically
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Tell application "Finder" to set doIt to frontmost mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder These commands use the sudo keyword, which means that you will need to enter your macOS user account password before the command can.
Figure out what the path is and quote it (myPath) Figure out if we want to do the cd (doIt) It has all the machinery you need to run commands. Here's my awesome script, it creates a new terminal window if needed and switches to the directory Finder is in if Finder is frontmost.