By Manny Fernandez

January 28, 2020

Creating an .app out of a Script on macOS

Since I am on my backup laptop due to my primary laptop having the keyboard replaced, I wanted to make it easy to launch Unetbootin from my Spotlight as a .app.  Found a nice little app in the AppStore that does just that.  In this example, I will do a quick ls script.

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ScriptToApp – App Maker is available in the AppStore and the cost is $2.99

I created a bash script to do a simple ls and display the results.

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#!/bin/bash
ls -all

You will need to make it executable

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chmod +x test.sh

As you can see, prior to running the chmod command, you did not have an x in the rights section.  Additionally, you can see that the test.sh file name is now red.  I wrote an article on how to add color to your ls command.

Launch the ScriptToApp Application

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Drag the script file from the folder

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Once you drag it on the app, you should get a pop-up

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Ensure all the settings are as you want including the name of the .app and click Create App

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You can always launch the script through the Spotlight search bar, but this makes it cleaner.  You can see the ls that ran.

 

 

 

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