How do I get a Mac “.command” file to automatically quit after running a shell script?

Question

In my shell script, my last lines are:

...
echo \"$l\" done
done

exit

I have Terminal preference set to \"When the shell exits: Close the wind

Answer 1

I was finally able to track down an answer to this. Similar to cobbal's answer, it invokes AppleScript, but since it's the only window that I'd have open, and I want to run my script as a quick open-and-close operation, this more brutish approach, works great for me.

Within the ".command" script itself, "...add this line to your script at the end"

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to quit' &
exit

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