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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 to get "continous" terminal execution output in a Cocoa app?

To ask elsehow: When I clone a git repo for example, terminal output goes like: Cloning into '/users/whatever'... remote: Counting objects: 1764, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (909/909), done. remote: Total 1764 (delta 944), reused 1622…
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How do i make a GIT credential helper?

The original question has been edited for clarity: I have a main project that does a git clone https://my.repo.project.git. The project has 2 targets (main target and password helper target). The repository is password protected and will ask for…
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NSTask vs System - pros and cons?

I'm at a point in a project where I need to call system commands. I originally started looking at NSTask (as that seems to be the most popular approach) but recently i just came across the system command. It looks like a far easier setup that…
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Working around NSFileHandle NSTask blocking when passing large amounts of data

I've got a bit of code that handles exporting data from my application. It takes in an NSString full of XML and runs it through a PHP script to generate HTMl, RTF, etc. It works well unless a user has a large list. This is apparently due to it…
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NSTask requires flush when reading from a process' stdout, Terminal does not

I have a simple Python script that asks for your name, then spits it back out: def main(): print('Enter your name: ') for line in sys.stdin: print 'You entered: ' + line Pretty simple stuff! When running this in the OS X Terminal,…
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Objective-C, running NSTask in background periodically

I've seen some good information on how to keep an NSTask running in the background, although that's not entirely what I want to do. What I would like to do is periodically run an NSTask in the the background (like every 30 seconds), then kill it;…
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NSTask does not receive stdout outside of Xcode 4.3.3

this is my first post, so let me send me many thanks to all the posting guys outside there (I use SO extensively passively - great!) I'm working on an video exporting tool for Mac OS X using the good old Quicktime API. Brief: I cut frames from…
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Piping NSTask's output directly to a file?

What's the best way to directly pipe an NSTask's output to a file? I want to go through as few buffers in memory as possible.
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How to to run separate processes on iOS

How can I run a separate process (the executable will be in the main bundle) on iOS? NSTask seems to be missing... BTW I don't care if this will be rejected by Apple, as it will never be submitted.
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NSTask with multiple pipe input

I'm trying to use pipes to handle a command that requires multiple inputs, but not quite sure how to do it. Here's a snippet of what I'm trying to do. I know how to handle the first input, but I'm at lost as to piping in the second input…
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Async execution of shell command not working properly

So, this is my code : - (void)runCmd:(NSString *)cmd withArgs:(NSArray *)args { NSLog(@"\nRunning ::\n\tCmd : %@\n\tArgs : %@",cmd, args); [theSpinner start]; if (task) { [task interrupt]; } else { task =…
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Is there any way to run two or more NSTasks?

You can run a script in a Cocoa application using the wonderful NSTask, and it works great. The only issue is that I need to run multiple scripts, and in my application, the scripts cannot be combined into one file or one call -- they must be run as…
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How to run a shell command in cocoa and get output?

After repeated searching I have not found an elegant solution to this issue: how to run a shell command in obj-c and get it's output. I have read many questions regarding this, but they all fail to answer my question. Some get the exit value (…
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NSTask and arguments when running command line tools

How would I pass arguments (host in this case) to NSTask in this code? It does not accept the host NSString. If I pass the host value with the ping, for e.g.. [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"-c",@"ping -c 5 www.google.com",nil] then it works. But it…
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NSTask only returning standardError in release build

First of all, when debugging and running in Xcode everything works as expected. But when I try to "share" my app, i.e. make a release build, my NSTask won't output any standardOutput while standardErrors ARE put out. How is that possible? My code -…
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