[Big-C]

Hi,

I wrote a little script to mount a remote hard drive (thanks to commands found on this board!), and now have 2 questions:

1. Anyone know how to kill the finished Terminal.app when my script is finished?

I tried this:
############################
set pid = `ps aux | grep -v grep | grep Terminal | awk '{print $2}'`

if ($pid != "") then
kill $pid
endif
############################

But my variable $pid echo's as empty when the script runs...


2. Anyone know how I can unmount the mounted disk via my script?


Any help with either of these is appreciated!

-Chris

[Axel]

I think that's because without the appropriate flag, the ps command's output is limited by the width of your current Terminal window. You'll see that if you resize it, the script will work.
The easiest way to solve your problem is to add the -w flag to the ps command, that is type :
ps auwx | grep...

[Arkham_c]

To get the PID, (a) don't put spaces between variable name, equals sign, and command, and (b) set is unnecessary if you're using a Bourne shell (as you should for all scripting).

Code:
#!/bin/sh
#
# kill Terminal
#
PID=`ps -auxww | grep Terminal.app | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`


if [ "$PID" != "" ]; then
    kill $PID
fi

[Big-C]

Victory!

I'm happy to report that the "ps auxw" option worked perfectly.

Thanks!!

-Chris

PS. I use csh for scripting (it's hard to break old habits).

[ul1984]

Or you could just use a much simpler command:

killall Terminal