NSTask Class on OS X API , lets you run another program as a subprocess and monitor that program’s execution
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NSPipe input from process I don't control
I have an application written in Objective-C and am trying to receive messages from an app written in C. It appears I have two options... XPC services and Piping. In regards to NSPipe - I am trying to determine how I can open a pipe that watches a…
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IBAlert output of a bash script
i use NSTask to run my bash script, works perfectly, but at the end, i want the app to make an iBAlert (esay :D) but that shows a line of the bash script (ex: Pacthing hlll... Pathing dlll... Succesfully pathed dlll,hlll (whatever)). I want the…
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How to run code out of a string at runtime?
First of all, I know that Apple rejects apps that include something like that. It's just for the personal purpose.
I tried the following example:
import Foundation
var instructions: String = "let str = \"Hello\"\nprint(\"\\(str) world\")\n"
let…
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Process() : - How to identify The PID of process when has been open from Process()?
I am developing osX app,
I need to open another App from MyApp
func openAnotherProcess(command:[String])
{
let task = Process()
task.launchPath = /PATH FOR WHICH WANT TO OPEN/
task.arguments = command
let pipe =…
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NSTask get notified when a command can't execute "command not found"
I'm trying to run terminal commands/scripts from my application, all is working fine however when a command is wrong and can not execute I get something like this:
but this "/bin/bash: line..." string is not in my output string I get from the task,…
Steven B.
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Relaunching cocoa app with command line arguments
I am trying to relaunch my application with some command line arguments. The below code works (without command line arguments)
- (void)relaunchAfterDelay:(float)seconds
{
NSLog(@"relaunchAfterDelay ") ;
NSTask *task = [[NSTask alloc] init]…
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Objective C - NSTask support
I am programming an advanced Executable (binary) Analyser Application that can do many operations on Mach-O binaries. One of these functions is a simple launch operation with can simply execute the executable and log its output.
I recently found out…
YeaTheMans
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NSTask to check if process is running
I'm trying to determine if a particular process if running, and tried with NSTask but it gives me an error when I try to grep the ps command: ps: illegal argument: |.
Maybe trying to use nstask for this is not the best way?
Here is the my…
Niko Federov
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Cocoa app cannot start looping python script. Works when built/run through xcode
I'm trying to use NSTask to start a looping python script from a cocoa app. The python script ends up in the app's Contents/Resources folder.
I get the path to the script and create the NSTask…
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Need to execute a command in Cocoa app
I am developing a macOS app using Objective-C that I want to run some commands same like terminal. Actually I want to run YOLO command from my application. I am using NSTask class for this.
When I run the command through code, on task launch, I am…
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See NSTask output Cocoa
How could I make an if statement that's like:
if(the output of a nstask is equal to a specific string){
//do stuff over here
}
I'm running a NSTask and it put's out the data that's coming from it in the NSLog, but how could I not show it there…
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How to return NSLog output in real time as a class property in Swift
I have two classes in Swift, one is a ViewController.swift, another has some business logic, called Brain.swift. In Brain.swift I have a class which contains a function called convert() which executes an NSTask.
In ViewController.swift all of the…
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Starting an SH file with NSTask
Here is my code:
-(void)startTask{
NSString * cmd = @"/bin/sh";
pty_ = [[PseudoTTY alloc] init];
NSTask * task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
[task setStandardInput:[pty_ slaveFileHandle]];
[task setStandardOutput:[pty_ slaveFileHandle]];
[task…
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Running node commands in Swift
I'm trying to run nodejs commands using Swift in my OS X app.
Running commands like echo work but when I'm trying to run node:
func node(args: String...) -> Int32 {
let task = NSTask()
task.launchPath = "/usr/bin/env"
task.arguments = args
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Swift hiding shell script
I have a simple shell script wrapper on swift project for OSX. When I build the app I can clearly see my ".sh" file in the Resources folder. I thought about renaming it and start the name of the script with a ".dot" so finder hides it but I would…
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