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how to create AppleScript app to run a set of terminal commands

Asked 2010-07-01T01:18:57.773
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How would I go about creating an AppleScript command that when I just run the script (or double click it in Finder?), it would run a set of terminal commands? The set of commands completely remove MySQL, and it has become a pain to constantly write them out. The commands are:

sudo rm /usr/local/mysql
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/mysql*
sudo rm -rf /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM
sudo rm -rf /Library/PreferencePanes/My*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/mysql*
sudo rm -rf /Library/Receipts/MySQL*
sudo rm /etc/my.cnf

There is also another command sudo nano /etc/hostconfig that opens a file and I need to delete a line from the file, but that seems like it'd be too hard to code, so I guess I can do that by hand. But it would be a huge help to do this automatically with a single script.

Would it just be a bunch of these commands?

do shell script (...)

Thanks, Hristo

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Yes, you would use do shell script.

However, for the commands where you execute as super user (sudo) you would instead use with administrator privileges. So, for sudo rm /usr/local/mysql you'd do:

do shell script "rm /usr/local/mysql" with administrator privileges

If your list of commands is long, then it might just be easier to put all your commands into a single shell script file, and then execute that shell script using do shell script:

do shell script "/path/to/shell/script" with administrator privileges
answered 2010-07-01T01:25:59.140
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You don't actually need to use AppleScript for this - just put all the shell commands in a text file and give it a .command suffix and make sure it's executable (e.g. chmod +x my_script.command) - this will make it double-clickable in the Finder.

answered 2010-07-01T07:47:35.393

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