I'm working with Ionic which has a command line interface. I would like to create a small Mac app that helps to execute certain commands. In the terminal I cd Users/me/Desktop/Repos/ionic-project/...

I am trying to figure out how to pass input to a NSTask when prompted. Example: I do something like kinit username@DOMAIN and I get a "enter Password" prompt. I want to be able to supply the...

I have a PHP script which has mutliple sleep() commands. I would like to execute it in my application with NSTask. My script looks like this: echo "first\n"; sleep(1); echo "second\n"; sleep(1); e...

I'm using NSTask to execute a series of long running commands like so: commandToRun = @"command 1;command2"; NSArray *arguments = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"-c", commandToRun, nil]; self.task...

I’m working on a Mac OS app composed of a main app and a helper : Backup.app/ └── Contents ├── Library │ └── LoginItems │ └── BackupHelper.app ├── MacOS │ └── Backup Backup.app: ask the use...

In an application I'm making I need to run the following command as root (user will be prompted trice if they really want to, and they will be asked to unmount their drives) using NSTask: /bin/rm -...

I have been searching for days and hours for this, I have seen a lot of examples of this, but cannot figure out how NSTask works, let's say I wanted to execute the command killall Dock or defaults ...

Ok. There are several questions on stack overflow about this. This question was the only question comes closest to mines, but it uses notifications. The code is very simple. Create a new empty Mac...

Here is my code: task = [[NSTask alloc] init]; [task setCurrentDirectoryPath:@"/applications/jarvis/brain/"]; [task setLaunchPath:@"/applications/jarvis/brain/server.sh"]; NSPipe * out = [NSPipe ...

I got a Cocoa command-line program in which I try to run NSTask program (tshark to monitor network) and get data from it in real-time. So I make a NSFileHandle , call waitForDataInBackgroundAndNo...

I'm attempting to read data from the Standard Error of a NSTask in Cocoa using waitForDataInBackgroundAndNotify. The following code does read the stream, so it's already working partially. The pr...

I've been trying to make do (see this and this) with the recent NSUserScriptTask class and its subclasses and so far I've solved some problems, but some others remain to be solved. As you can see f...

Is there any way to cancel a running NSUserScriptTask? The only way that comes to mind is to launch a separate process (a command line tool) via NSTask, whose only purpose is to run the NSUserScrip...

I need to basically do a "sudo" but, I need to give that kind of permission to my NSTask code. Is this possible? Thanks, Elijah

I need to realize a communication between two threads using NSPipe channels, the problem is that I don't need to call terminal command by specifying this methods. [task setCurrentDirectoryPath:@"....

What I'm trying to do My Cocoa app needs to run a bunch of command-line programs. Most of these are non-interactive, so I launch them with some command-line arguments, they do their thing, output ...

I've an open source project (gdal) that I want to compile and run as part of an iOS app. I had been expecting to use NSTask but I see now that it was removed in iOS 3.0. I've also seen elsewh...

I'm trying to put together a little RSync program for the hell of it, and I managed to get it to work with the code below. The only problem is that it only Rsyncs single files and not directories. ...

I want to run dpkg ( or any other binary library files from cydia in the /bin or /usr/bin directories) from a GUI app with an icon, like mobileterminal, ifile, myfile, cydia, alertscript, and so ma...

First of all, when debugging and running in Xcode everything works as expected. But when I try to "share" my app, i.e. make a release build, my NSTask won't output any standardOutput while standar...

I would like to embed a command-line executable in my Xcode/Cocoa project, to then start it with NSTask. Which path should I use in the setLaunchPath ? Thanks !

What I have is NSTask running a long premade shell script and I want the NSProgressIndicator to check on how much is done. I've tried many things but just can't seem to get it to work. I know how t...

I am currently trying to wrap my head around the hole NSTask, NSPipe, NSFileHandle business. So I thought I write a little tool, which can compile and run C code. I also wanted to be able to redire...

I am making a small app that deletes log files. I am using an NSTask instance which runs rm and srm (secure rm) to delete files. I want to be able to delete files in: /Library/Logs ~/Library/Log...

In my Cocoa application I'm trying to use NSTask to run some basic Git commands. Whenever I run a command that requires permissions (SSH keys) to access a remote (e.g. git push, git pull), it fails...