AppleScript - send a message to the terminal window a bash script is running in, even when that window does not have focus

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Update: cloned to here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/460841/209336

I'd like to have a bash script along the lines of this:

# set terminal window profile to profile2
sleep 300
# set terminal window profile to profile1

during that sleep, I might go off and start using a different application than Terminal, or I might be using a different Window of Terminal. So the approaches which send a message to the active or front terminal window don't work. Can I grab the current terminal window ID at the start and re-use it later ?

[Ask Different](https://apple.stackexchange.com) might be a better forum for this question. — glenn jackman, Jun 09 '23 at 18:04

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 09 '23 at 19:41

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You can use tty to identify the window.

Save following script to test.sh and run it with bash test.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to set current settings of (the first window whose tty of tab 1 contains "'"$(tty)"'") to settings set "Basic"'

echo "You can switch to another windows"

sleep 6

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to set current settings of (the first window whose tty of tab 1 contains "'"$(tty)"'") to settings set "Grass"'

answered Jun 09 '23 at 19:41

Philippe

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this is super interesting, thank you. I haven't had a moment to try it yet, but I definitely will. – orion elenzil Jun 14 '23 at 21:56
this works very well in testing. thank you! – orion elenzil Jun 21 '23 at 17:01

AppleScript - send a message to the terminal window a bash script is running in, even when that window does not have focus

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