Running Shell Script

[abaratz]

I am seeing strange behavior when running a shell script. I am using foreground. When I run the command from the GUI editor, it doesn't immediately run. If I close the editor and re-open it, the command runs immediately upon reopening the editor. If I try to run the command from Alexa, it doesn't run at all. I have another command that uses pmset and that one runs fine. Any ideas what's happening?

[Russ]

@abaratz, that is strange.

Can you share the script? It might give me a clue.

[abaratz]

@Russ Here you go. Thank you.

#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" == "open" ]
then
open -a "Slack"
open -a "Microsoft Outlook"
open -a "Safari"
else
shortcuts run "Quit All Applications"
pmset sleepnow
fi

[abaratz]

@Russ Actually, I just removed the call to shortcuts and it ran fine. Should I be doing something differently with respect to running a shortcut in the script? Thank you.

[abaratz]

@Russ Nevermind :). I just saw another post on running shortcuts. I wrapped the shortcuts call in my shell script inside of a call to AppleScript for running the shortcut and that worked. Sorry to bother you.

[Russ]

@abaratz, no problem. I'm glad you got it working.

Would you mind sharing your final working script?

[abaratz]

@Russ Sure.

Here is the shell script:

#!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" == "start" ]
then
open -a "Slack"
open -a "Microsoft Outlook"
open -a "Safari"
else
osascript ~/Smarthome/Closeallapps.scpt
pmset sleepnow
fi

And here is the AppleScript for Closeallapps:

tell application "Shortcuts Events"
set theResult to run shortcut "Quit All Applications"
end tell