hide the bash input in terminal

Question

I'm executing a bash command from AppleScript but the script is quite ugly and I am only interested to see the output in a terminal.

Example:

tell application "Terminal" do script "pwd" end tell

Terminal(I want to hide pwd):

pwd /Users/jdoe

Lri · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-21 11:47:46Z

If you use clear (or tput clear or printf \\ec), the old contents are shown if you scroll up:

tell application "Terminal" do script " clear; pwd" activate end tell

This can have a noticeable delay if System Events is not running:

tell application "Terminal" do script " osascript -e 'tell app \"system events\" to keystroke \"k\" using command down'; pwd" activate end tell

Ansgar Wiechers · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-20 12:30:51Z

1

The command is do shell script "pwd", and it did show only the output when I ran it in Script Editor or via osascript test.scpt in a Terminal.

answered Jul 20, 2013 at 10:26

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3 Comments

I've updated my example, instead of "pwd" there is an interactive script and "do script" executes it through the terminal.

Why do you go to the trouble of starting a Terminal instead of simply running do shell script?

Because I want a user to interact with it in a terminal, do shell script would execute it in the background.