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#1

Ok, I posted one other question similar to this but I’m not sure i was very clear about it, basically I have a executable shell script which runs in the terminal and allows the user to configure some options for a program. I was calling this executable with a simple do script command:

tell application "Terminal"
	do script "/Applications/TAU/tau-2.15.4/apple/bin/perfexplorer_configure"
end tell

The problem is that when this is run on another computer it doesn’t run properly due to something in the systems profile file. What I would like to do is run this executable script without ANY profile files, so i would like to call the script and have it open in its own Terminal window without reading from any profile files…is this possible???

Please help

#2

I guess what I am getting at is… is there a way to specify to run the script without a profile that isn’t dependent on the shell the user is running…so if they are running python or bash or etc… can i specify to run this script without any profile or if that isn’t possible can i change their shell to bash and then run the script?

#3

Why not include bash in the script?

tell application "Terminal"
	do script "/bin/bash -c /Applications/TAU/tau-2.15.4/apple/bin/perfexplorer_configure"
end tell

I believe running bash in this fashion doesn’t use profiles or other resource files; However, you may want to read the “Invocation” section of the bash man page yourself.