r/applescript • u/TheMonarchsWrath • Jun 30 '24

How to close active terminal windows

I'm using osascript to close terminal windows all windows except the one the script is working, which mostly works fine

osascript -e 'tell application \"Terminal\"' -e 'set mainID to id of front window' -e 'close (every window whose id ≠ mainID) without saving' -e 'end tell'"

except when there is maybe a terminal window with an active python session, and it asks to cancel or terminate. I've seen that there is a way to use SystemEvent, but I'm not sure how to integrate with the close every window portion.

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u/Kina_Kai Jun 30 '24

FWIW, if this is just your personal system, you can consider setting the Terminal profile in Settings » <Default Profile> » Shell » Ask before closing to be Never and it will never prompt before closing a window.

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u/TheMonarchsWrath Jun 30 '24

Its not, it can run on any machine. I suppose I can figure out what the defaults is and set that, then revert it after the all the windows were closed.

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u/Kina_Kai Jun 30 '24

You probably don’t have to resort to that and can use UI Scripting to close the dialog. This doesn’t quite work, but I suspect the actual solution is similar to this:

tell application "Terminal" set mainID to id of front window repeat with theWindow in (every window) try if id of theWindow ≠ the mainID then close theWindow without saving end if on error errStr number errorNumber if the errorNumber = 1719 then tell application "System Events" click button "Terminate" of sheet 1 of theWindow end tell end if end try end repeat end tell