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NSTask Class on OS X API , lets you run another program as a subprocess and monitor that program’s execution

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How check if output of bash script contains a certain string in Objective-C?

I would like to do something if the output of a shell script contains the string "Caddy 2 serving static files on :2015". This is what I have so far but the beach ball is just spinning. It seems it is because of the last command in my bash script…
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Can't pass command line arguments to an NSTask running the PHP CLI

Edit: [Solved] see below. I'm launching PHP as an NSTask and trying to pass some command line options to it: NSTask *php = [[NSTask alloc] init]; [php setLaunchPath: phpPath]; NSArray *args = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects: @"-r 'echo 123;'",…
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NSTask unzip skipped filename with special characters ( å, ä, ö )

HI I'm new to mac development. I'm using NSTask to unzip files. When unzip encounters image names with special characters ( å, ä, ö ), the files gets skipped. Is there an encoding that I need to specify or if someone can point me to the issue that…
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Reading NSTask output persistent memory usage

I have a simple NSTask which runs a shell command, and a NSPipe file handle for reading which is used to read the output of the command and writes out to a file. When this command terminates and the output is written to file, Activity Monitor and…
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Variable in NSTask - Objective-C Cocoa

I want to use command line in Cocoa for record of the password in a bunch of keys. But I can't insert a variable at line. How to make it? How $pass to provide me self.PassKey? self.PassKey = [_PassTextField stringValue]; NSTask *taskPass = [[NSTask…
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How to run the "Purge" command through NSTask?

I'm making a free Mac app that is simply a wrapper over the "purge" command that can be run in Terminal. I'm tired of the ripoffs that are populating the Mac App Store and I just want to help people. I've got the GUI finished I just can't figure…
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I am getting EXC_GUARD when launching app using NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath

Faulting code: myTask = [NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath: appPath arguments: initArray]; Where myTask is a global static NSTask* myTask = NULL; and initArray is a global static NSMutableArray *initArray = NULL; and appPath is a local…
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Could NSTask call a bash shell that having a read command in it and waiting for an input value?

I'm developing a macOS App which should use Process to run a shell script. The function somehow like this: func shellDemo(launchPath: String?, args: [String]?, onComplete: RunShellScriptResult? = nil, onFail: RunShellScriptResult? = nil) -> Void { …
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Use NSTask To Run SH Script in Objective C slower than direct execute script from Terminator

I created a sh/Python script as execute file. However, when I run this script by one click button from Objective C program using NSTask the progress time is much slower than I execute script directly from MacOS Terminal. I read some information from…
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NSTask launch crash due to EXC_GUARD

In my macOS app I launch the ffmpeg task in order to retrieve the media file information. And I receive many crashes due to EXC_GUARD: Exception Type: EXC_GUARD Exception Codes: 0x4000000200000001, 0xd71a2ae8e8dab339 Exception Subtype: …
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Run NSTask synchronously

I have an .app file that I'm running through NSTask and I wish the thread to be blocked till .app execution is over. My current code is: NSTask *task = [[NSTask alloc] init]; task.launchPath = @"/bin/bash"; task.arguments = [NSArray…
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Use a relative path with NSTask Arguments in Objective-C

I have virtually no programing experience beyond shell scripting, but I'm in a situation where I need to call a binary with launchd and because of security changes in Catilina, it looks as though it cannot be a AppleScript .app, Automator .app, or a…
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Running multiple NSTasks consecutively

I need to run multiple commands in sequence using NSTask and was wondering what would be a good way to tell if a task has finished so I can continue on to the next command. I'm using "sox" (which I am including in my application bundle) to create…
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How to run the "screen" command from NSTask?

I want to monitor a virtual COM port (Arduino RFID) on my Mac. I can run "screen /dev/tty.serialnumber" from the terminal, and it outputs the RFID serial number when I swipe it. As soon as I try it from Xcode with an NSTask I get the following…
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Objective-C, best way to handle NSTask that isn't finished

I have an asynchronous dispatch queue which reads data from large files in the background. During the course of that it does a few other things including some NSTask operations. The problem I'm facing is that I populate some variables with the…
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