Hide or close Terminal after process (enhancement)

[Neberheim]

Is it possible for the entry to work in the background? I don’t love that Terminal pops into the foreground and remains open. I tried messing around with && exit and some other commands but I’m not sure how to execute the process properly.

[dricard]

I don't think it's possible for the script to work in the background. DayOne offers a CLI tool but no other method of interaction. My doto script, which sends a todo to Things, works without the terminal because Things supports an URL scheme. Note that Things will open, so it's not exactly "working in the background."
As a developer Terminal (or rather iTerm) is always open, so it never bothered me, but I'll see if I can arrange something to at least close the Terminal after the command has worked. Would that be ok?

[dricard]

Ok so I added an Alfred Workflow which quits the Terminal application after the script runs. You should probably change a default preference in Terminal. Follow these steps:

• open Terminal preferences
• select 'Profiles'
• select the 'Shell' tab
• select 'Never' in Ask before closing
• select 'Close the window' under 'When the shell exits'
• close the preferences' window

[dricard]

So, install the new workflow and test it out after changing the Terminal preferences as described above.

[Neberheim]

Excellent, thank you.

[dricard]

You're welcome!