Entering multiple commands in Terminal

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#1

I’m trying to enter a few different (but related) commands into a single Terminal window and I don’t know what AS command to use. I’ve tried “do script with command…” but each command is brought up in a new Terminal window. Any ideas?

#2

You can specify the terminal window that will perform the script. You can also use the Unix way of performing several commands in order by placing the commands on a single line and separating by semicolon. You’ll have to quote the command line to get it to work.

tell application "Terminal"
          activate
	do script "cp ~/Documents/Filetobackup ~/Documents/Filetobackup.bak" in window 1
	do script "pico ~/Documents/Filetobackup" in window 1
end tell

tell app "Terminal"
    activate
    do script "cp ~/Documents/Filetobackup ~/Documents/Filetobackup.bak; pico ~/Documents/Filetobackup"
end tell
#3

Do you really need the Terminal in the first place? You can simply use the “do shell script “…”” to issue any commands without actually invoking the Terminal app.

Jon

#4

Unless you wanted to end up in the Terminal? Otherwise, you’re right and a “do shell script” would be sufficient. Without more info from IMacthereforeIAm we don’t know. IMacthereforeIAm?