I would like to open FileZilla (ftp application) with an argument. It is working with NSTask (aka. Process): let process:Process = Process() process.launchPath = appURL.path process.arguments = [...

It seems that NSTask calls -[NSString fileSystemRepresentation] to encode values for each of the arguments you give it. This can become a problem in some situations due to the fact that -fileSyste...

I have a sub-app in my main Swift app. I made it so it's copied automatically in the Resources folder of the main app when building it. That way, I want to be able to launch an instance of the sub-...

I'm using an NSTask to run rsync, and I'd like the status to show up in the text view of a scroll view inside a window. Right now I have this: let pipe = NSPipe() task2.standardOutput = pipe task2...

I'm trying to make a NSTask running a command like this: ps -clx | grep 'Finder' | awk '{print $2}' Here is my method - (void) processByName:(NSString*)name { NSTask *task1 = [[NSTask alloc]...

I don't know why this method returns a blank string: - (NSString *)installedGitLocation { NSString *launchPath = @"/usr/bin/which"; // Set up the task NSTask *task = [[NSTask alloc] init]; [t...

My app I have a Mac app that uses AsciiDoctor under the hood to generate PDF and ePUB files. I use the Process class (formerly NSTask) to run the AsciiDoctor commands. What I want I want people ...

I'm trying to use a Pipe's fileHandleForReading's readabilityHandler to read both the standardOutput and standardError of a Process. However, the moment the terminationHandler is called is actually...

I'm writing an application that kicks off a subprocess running a simple web server. I am using NSTask and communicating with it with pipes, and everything seems more or less fine. However, if my pr...

I need to use NSTask synchronously, however I find that occasionally my task hangs under the 'waitUntilExit' command. I wonder if there is a graceful way--an error handling method--to terminated th...

In the most recent Apple documentation both NSTask and Process have several deprecated methods and properties, although there's nothing marked with an API Availability Macro. Instance Properties ...

I am using the following code in my Cocoa project to call a script I made. The script is in the same folder as the project and even shows up under the "Resources" folder in Xcode. The proper path i...

I know how to send data to the task: NSData *charlieSendData = [[charlieImputText stringValue] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; [[[task standardInput] fileHandleForWriting] writeData:charl...

I am trying to read the contents of a URL synchronously for a simple command-line batch script in Swift. I am using cURL for simplicity's sake - I know I could use NSURLSession if I had to. I am al...

My goal is to create an extension that executes clang-format. My code looks something like this: - (void)performCommandWithInvocation:(XCSourceEditorCommandInvocation *)invocation completionHandle...

I am writing a Cocoa application which needs to execute a UNIX program and read its output, line by line, as they are produced. I set up a NSTask and NSPipe as such: task = [[NSTask alloc] init]; ...

I'm running the PHP CLI through a NSTask in MacOS, but this question is more about the CLI itself. I'm listening to the stderr pipe, but nothing is output there no matter what file I try to run: ...

I'm trying to run a shell script with NSTask with the following code: NSTask *task = [[NSTask alloc] init]; [task setLaunchPath:@"/Users/username/connect.sh"]; [task launch]; But I get An uncaug...

I have a multithreaded program that needs to run many executables at once and wait for their results. I use [nstask waitUntilExit] in an NSOperationQueue that runs it on non-main thread (running ...

I'm currently working on an application that collects information from text fields in an OS X application, then access the openssl binary to generate a CSR and a Private Key based on those text fie...

I seem to get a lot of crash reports like this: Crashed Thread: 14 Exception Type: EXC_GUARD Exception Codes: 0x4000000200000000, 0x00007fff96f73c48 Thread 14 Crashed: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0...

I'm trying to run a simple bash script using NSTask and direct the output to a text view. Once the task is executed, the CPU usage of my app is 100%, even though it's a simple echo (for now). I cr...

I am writing a simple terminal using openpty, NSTask and NSTextView. How are CtrlC and CtrlD supposed to be implemented? I start a shell like this: int amaster = 0, aslave = 0; if (openpty(&a...

I'm using NSTask, but when I launch the task it blocks the main thread (so I can't update it) until the task ends. This is my code: NSString *hostsforping = @"google.es"; pingdata = [[NSTask allo...

I am trying to run a terminal command in a Mac app that I am developing. The terminal command is: sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 I have tried using NSTask but it seems that I am doing...