Delay With Do Script in Terminal

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#1

Ok,

I have a script which tells the Terminal to activate and do a script, the only problem is, if i have eval su meskue in my ~/.profile so that i have to enter my password at the start of a new shell the do script never gets run? I have tried putting a delay in but that seems to make the script delay opening the terminal…here is the script…if anyone can tell me how i can get the script to run after i enter my password it would be great

tell application "Terminal"
	activate
	delay 5
	do script "/bin/bash --noprofile --norc
/Applications/TAU/tau-2.15.4/apple/bin/perfdmf_configure"
end tell

thanks,
meskue

#2

Also tried

tell application "Terminal"
	activate
	if window 1 is busy then
		delay 5
       end if
do script "/Applications/TAU/tau-2.15.4/apple/bin/perfdmf_configure"
end tell

which also doesn’t seem to work… busy is in the window dictionary for Terminal but it doesn’t seem to be working

someone please help im getting really frustrated

#3

hi meskue,

maybe you can wait for the end of ‘su’ like so:

tell app "Terminal"
	do script ""
	set win to window 1
	repeat until (last item of (get processes of win) is "su")
	end repeat
	repeat while (last item of (get processes of win) is "su")
	end repeat

	-- should be ready here, maybe another short delay is needed ...
end