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Quit is an executable bash script to make it quick and easy to politely quit applications from the command line.
This script takes one or more application names as arguments, and uses osascript to tell each one to quit. Unlike kill and killall, this allows applications to save files and perform any necessary operations before exiting.
This script takes one or more application names as arguments, and uses osascript to tell each one to quit. Unlike kill and killall, this allows applications to save files and perform any necessary operations before exiting.
What's New
Version 1.7.1:
- Minor bug fix: Unnecessary debugging messages are no longer displayed.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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Quit is an executable bash script to make it quick and easy to politely quit applications from the command line.
This script takes one or more application names as arguments, and uses osascript to tell each one to quit. Unlike kill and killall, this allows applications to save files and perform any necessary operations before exiting.
This script takes one or more application names as arguments, and uses osascript to tell each one to quit. Unlike kill and killall, this allows applications to save files and perform any necessary operations before exiting.
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Kankei71 reviewed on 17 Jul 2011
What about 'quit all'?
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Jerry Krinock reviewed on 26 Mar 2011
Anyhow, I added an option '-f' which says to *not* print an error message if the requested app is not running. Following is the 'diff' output which shows the difference between Jon's original and mine. Users can add this option to the script using the 'patch' command on their Mac.
Basic tutorial:
http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/introduction-using-diff-and-patch-tutorial
Intermediate tutorial:
http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/introduction-using-diff-and-patch-tutorial
Here's the patch text, created by diff. I hope that MacUpdate's system doesn't munge it up.
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> #
> # This is Jon's version 1.3, with the -f option added by
> # Jerry Krinock, 20110325
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< echo "Usage: `basename "$0"` [-a] [-p] [-s|n] "
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> echo "Usage: `basename "$0"` [-a] [-p] [-s|n] [-f] "
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> echo " -f Do not print an error message if app is not running"
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< while getopts "apns" opt
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> ignoreNotRunning="false"
> while getopts "apnsf" opt
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> f) ignoreNotRunning="true" ;;
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< echo "No running application matches "$arg""
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> if [[ $ignoreNotRunning == "false" ]]
> then
> echo "No running application matches "$arg""
> fi
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A better plan would be never to leave open documents unsaved when getting up from the computer. Then you won't need this script. If you must quit an application remotely and you think it has unsaved changes, use Screen Sharing to view the document before saving it.
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However, there are all manner of usage scenarios where Screen Sharing may be an unavailable, undesirable, unnecessary, or just plain inapplicable tool. This script is intended to make life easier in such scenarios.
The -n option was designed to help address the situation in which one needs to quit a document-based app which may have been subject to attack by feline interlopers. But thinking about your comments has given me the idea to add an option to allow saving to a new file. I'll see if I can put that into the next version.
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Ayub reviewed on 31 Aug 2009
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"Bash script to politely quit applications using Terminal."
How do we find out which applications are currently using Terminal? And how do we know when an application uses Terminal? I'd like to know that before having a script quit any application that uses Terminal.
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jichi reviewed on 21 Jul 2009
BTW, I found this app by accidence. why not add this good stuff to MacPorts? Hence more people will know and use it and make it better and better.
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43:166: execution error: System Events got an error: Can't make every application process whose name = "Adium" or short name = "Adium" or title = "Adium" or displayed name = "Adium" into type reference. (-1700)
No running application matches "Adium"
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