[neutrino]

Is there a way to wrap a Unix shell script as a Cocoa app? I'm trying to write a postprocessing application for OmniWeb downloads, and I need to invoke some Unix apps for this purpose. But Finder or OmniWeb won't recognize a shell script as an application.

[gregomni]

Check out DropScript.app here:
http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/software/

It's a little application that creates apps out of shell scripts or command-line programs.

[neutrino]

Sounds promising. But I couldn't figure out how to use it. Can you give me instructions? Thanks!

[Apocalypse]

Correct me if I am wrong but can't shell scripts be passed as arguments to their interpreters? If that is possible, you could simply use the unix script as an argument to an NSTask that launches the interpreter.

If you think that would be of assistance, take a look at some of my wrapped Unix programs:
http://www.indigox.dyndns.org/wrappers/

[neutrino]

I was just stupid.

DropScript works great! You just create a shell script, say, "example". Drag the file in Finder on DropScript icon. Then it creates a Cocoa app named "Dropexample". When you drop a file on the created Cocoa app ("Dropexample"), the name of the file is passed along to the script as $1. I don't know how to pass command line options, though.