Mac OS X - run shell script from the desktop GUI

Question

You can create a shell script or a Python or Ruby script and run it on the Mac by using \"Terminal\" ... if you have Finder open, and you click on the icon for the file cont

Answer 1

Yes - just put a .command suffix on the script.

Note: make sure the script is executable, e.g.

$ chmod +x myscript.command

Answer 2

just associate .sh files with Terminal.app

Answer 3

Just another quick alternative is the tool platypus (http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus/). Free and good, but you can donate, if you want.

Platypus is a developer tool for the Mac OS X operating system. It creates native Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts such as shell scripts or Perl, Ruby and Python programs. This is done by wrapping the script in an application bundle along with a native executable binary that runs the script.