First up, I'm not sure of terminology so when I refer to "action" below, I mean the things that will get done with whatever file. In other words I bring up quicksilver, type the name of the script, then hit tab....the list that I get here is what i'm referring to as "action" below.
Ok guys, I use a bit of shell scripting, and I'd like to be able to run these scripts by calling them in quicksilver. I've modified my shell scripts to have a .command extension, which lets OSX know to open them in a terminal window. For example I have the file pinger.command, which when double clicked in the Finder, opens up a new terminal window and executes the script. Works like a charm. Now when it comes to Quicksilver, it finds these files and if I change the action from the default of "run" to "open" then they open with terminal, just like if I double clicked them in the Finder.....so far so good! Of Note here is that the "open" command, when called via double click in Finder OR when called via Quicksilver, appends a "; exit" to the command when it inputs it in the terminal, so that when the script finishes the shell is exited in the terminal window....I like this a lot. Now if I use the Terminal plug-in, I get another option in Quicksilver (besides "run" and "open") for .command files, "Run in Terminal" which is SUPER cool because it puts a text box below the action which lets me pass parameters to the script!!!! This also functions similar to the "open" command in that it spawns a new terminal window and runs the script. Unfortunately, unlike "open" it doesn't append "; exit", so when the script exits i've got a live shell running.....but I can deal with that. The real PROBLEM, is that "run" is the default action for .command files, and apparently this command tries to run the scripts as some sort of hidden process. This is perfectly fine for scripts which require no user input, but for the scripts that DO require user input it can cause Quicksilver to become unresponsive while the script is running. The example is a script that I have that loops until the user presses a key. Now when I use the "open" or "run in terminal" action, these spawn new terminal windows which allow me to press a key, thus ending the loop. However, when I use the "run" action, there is no way to press a key, so the loop goes on forever, and quicksilver stays busy with the script so I can no longer use it!!! Naturally, I'd rather avoid EVER using the plain "run" action, but it is the default action. ACTUAL QUESTION: How do I change the default action for these file types? (I'd like to change the action for .command as well as .sh files) Thanks in advance
