Automatically close Terminal window upon successful download?

[kwolk]

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I would like to know if it it possible to have Terminal automatically close the Window in use after it has successfully downloaded a batch file please?

[siddht4]

do this as follows
create a batch file with the name test.bat
in the test.batch file add this commands
@echo off
youtube-dl [video-link]
exit

done

[siddht4]

for your example it would be

rename the test.txt to test.bat
test.txt

[yan12125]

Thanks @siddht1 AFAIK it's impossible to close the terminal inside application. A shell script is the right way.

[kwolk]

Many thanks for the example, but I couldn't get your provided example file to work, I use the command:

youtube-dl --batch-file test.bat
AND
youtube-dl -a test.bat

I received the following error:

ERROR: u'@echo off' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run youtube-dl "ytsearch:@echo off" ) to search YouTube

I tried of course without echo off but it wouldn't work either.

[yan12125]

Forgot to ask, are you using Windows? If so, just double click on test.bat.

[kwolk]

No, OS X, I skimmed past that in the documentation.

(Terminal is OS X, it's Command in Windows as I recall)

[yan12125]

This should work:

youtube-dl "<the video URL>" && exit

[kwolk]

That it does. Many thanks.

For clarification:

this is for OS X

1. Create a text file in TextEdit (e.g. "zzz.txt") and save it to the Desktop.
2. Enter all of the URLs of the YouTube videos you want to download inside zzz.txt one after the other on separate lines.
3. Rename zzz.txt to zzz.bat --this is a batch file now.
4. Open a Terminal window and type: youtube-dl -a ~/Desktop/zzz.bat && exit

Now all the videos in the text (batch) file will download and the Terminal window will close.

note: for the Terminal window to actually close you will need to follow this site's advice: http://superuser.com/questions/160473/avoiding-process-completed-prompt-after-terminal-script-ends-on-mac-os-x

[yan12125]

I guess you mean youtube-dl -a ~/Desktop/zzz.bat instead of youtube-dl ~/Desktop/zzz.bat in step 4?

[kwolk]

Updated!

[siddht4]

ok i thought you asked for windows as the title was "Automatically close Terminal window upon successful download?", i have the bash script for linux its similar as @yan12125 example