Last Updated: February 25, 2016

iTerm automation with AppleScript and Bash

AppleScript is a nice way to automate some features of iTerm. Combining that with my Bash scripts was a no-brainer in order to get my default iTerm tabs. You can see all of the code at https://github.com/jacaetevha/finna-be-octo-hipster/

Here's a sneak preview:

** ~/Library/Scripts/itermcreatedefault_tabs.scpt **

tell application "iTerm"
 activate
 tell the current terminal
 set theRailsDir to choose folder with prompt "Select your Rails directory"

 repeat 6 times
 activate current session
 launch session "Default Session"
 tell the last session
 write text "cd " & (theRailsDir as string)
 end tell
 end repeat

 tell the last session
 write text "osascript '~/Library/Scripts/iterm_set_rails_tabs.scpt'"
 end tell
 end tell
end tell

#applescript

#iterm

#bash