NSTask Class on OS X API , lets you run another program as a subprocess and monitor that program’s execution
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Blocking standard out from a NSTask-run program
I am using NSTask with setStandardOutput to redirect the standard output of a command line tool to my program, so I can use it for processing. This works great but as a side result the tool's output gets shown as output when I run my program. I want…
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iTunes isRunning with NSTask
So I am trying to make an if based on if iTunes is running or not. I need this because my application gets the track name. This track name has already been accomplished and works but I do not want iTunes always running...
So I decided to try a…
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Command line tool running slowly from NSTask but fast from Terminal
I have written a cmdline tool that usually takes 15-20 seconds to finish.
While it performs its task, it outputs its progress at least once per second via stdout.
When I run the command from Terminal.app, it performs as fast as possible, e.g. within…
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Executing shell script FILE with NSTask - Objective-C
i've got a file "Script.sh", which includes different shell commands, like some defaults write or creating folders, moving files etc. For Example:
#!/bin/sh
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool TRUE
killall Finder
However, im…
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stderr not being redirected to variable when bash script run from NSTask/Process in Swift
Edit:
Here is a link to the actual Xcode Test Project:
https://github.com/briggsm/StdErrTest
With this, I think it will be very easy to reproduce & see this issue.
Original Post:
I have an executable (chmod +x) bash script (myScript.sh) like…
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Running a command on a remote machine over SSH using NSTask fails
I'm trying to use the techniques from this answer to run a command on a remote machine over SSH, and collect the output. This is my code:
dispatch_async(dispatch_queue_create("closet ping", NULL), ^{
NSTask *task;
task = [[NSTask alloc]…
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Call shell script using objective-c - NsTask
I have been working on a command line tool in swift but due to excessive size of the executable(around 10 mb) I need to re-write it in objective-c.
Now I am not a fan of objective-c, thanks to it's lengthy syntax.
So I have this function which I…
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Swift NStask function
I'm a complete swift noob. Using this code in xcode I get the result I need. I created a command line binary "menubar" that takes several arguments. I normally run it in the terminal "/bin/menubar getip", "/bin/menubar/getuser". I want to create a…
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Translating AppleScript to Objective-C
I am new to Objective-C and I am trying to translate an AppleScript into Objective-C. Using AStranslate, I get the error Untranslated event 'sysoexec'
The following is the applescript I want to translate:
do shell script…
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