How do I call the Terminal?

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I wanted to pass some orders to the macOS Terminal (and eventually do the simlar on other platforms), but apparently I do not know how to do that.

Worst, I do not know how to run it (check if it is running).

Is Terminal (the Unix command line application) the name on US macOS ?

The command is nothing fancy; ls, cd, mkdir “foo”… and even copy two files from the Downloads folder to the newly created folder.

I set a TextArea, place the commands, put a PushButton, etc. and when it was time to write code to talk to the Terminal, I was lost. Sad feeling.

À l’aide ! Aiuto ! Help ! Hilfe !
Hey ! I know how to ask for help for some languages…

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Look at the Shell class.

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Thanks Bob.

Is the Shell working on m1 ?
(does not seems)

I love AirDrop. I will check on an i5.

Sh**, API1 vs API2 there !

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OK: I do not understand that I will get the results back…

I was looking at the Terminal window and saw nothing !

Sorry for the buz folks !

I add another TextArea for the results…

Some minutes later:
ls, when called from a shell leads to the boot volume directory, not the usual Terminal folder… another glitch to work-around…

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She’ll runs without GUI, so you need to make your own window if needed.
And it doesn’t have a start folder unless you define it.

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Thank you Christian.

It have a start folder, the boot volme by default.

I tried to set my default folder, but since I do not know the computer user name, how can I do that ?

Worst: cd Users does not set the folder to Users. I do that by hand in the Terminal, and it works there (El Capitan). I was even able to set the computer user name as the working folder, because know its name on my computer.

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In a terminal, try this command: whoami
Which you can of course use in the shell :smiling_face:

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Please always use full paths like /usr/bin/whoami to avoid trouble with missing path environment variable.

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Nice ! Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I tried to change the path to Users (or Applications) but it does not works. Used command is:
cd Users
cd Applications

That command works because when I set:
cd java

I get an error message (I got none with Users and Applications), in both i5 and m1.

I’m afraid I’m in a dead end.

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Did you check examples coming with Xojo?
And you should not need cd.

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Yes.

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I checked the examples right now; Funny to get the same result with a different design.

Xojo example list the root folder of the boot volume just like mine, read the screen shot above. The executed command is in the TextArea on the top…

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I use cd because I have to open, save, load in “data” I sent to the Shell file(s).

I read the Xojo Shell documentation once more and see nothing that allows me to set the shell working directory.

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If you would use ShellMBS class in MBS Xojo Plugins, you could set the CurrentDirectory property and define the starting path.

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I don’t have a budget for this, sorry.

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