macOS Terminal 'object'

[DennisBlah]

Is there anyone who knows how I can create a terminal 'object' inside an xCode application?
I can execute an terminal command using NSTask, with /bin/sh as launchPath.

This is working fine.. But.. I'd like to keep that 'session' open.
For example... open a telnet connection, read the outcome, and afterwards depending on the action of a user I'd like to start sending commands to the 'session'

I want to use it to open up a thirdparty CLI tool which opens a sort off 'session' like telnet, and need to put in several commands.

To prevent user faults, I'd like to do this from xCode so the whole CLI is hidden

 

[chown33]

2002 discussion:
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/6721-choosing-view-for-terminal-like-app.html

Example app, open source, GPL v2:
http://www.iterm2.com/

Both found by searching for:
nstextview terminal

 

[DennisBlah]

2002 discussion:
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/6721-choosing-view-for-terminal-like-app.html

Example app, open source, GPL v2:
http://www.iterm2.com/

Both found by searching for:
nstextview terminal

Hi Chown,

thanks for your reply! I will look further into it tomorrow
I wasnt sure what to look for
got into NSTask with in and out streams and bash/sh

but... couldnt find exactly anything like a good example or howto use

Thank you very much!

 

[DennisBlah]

Hi Chown,

again thanks for your reply tho. I been looking into it, but this is too much hassle
I think I will work with an bash script using expect -> spawn -> expect (for response) -> send (commands)

 

[mfram]

If what you're trying to do is open a "telnet" connection and send/receive commands from a program, the real answer is to open a TCP connection to port 23 and then send and receive commands to that socket connection. There's no reason to get an NSTask or Shell or anything else involved.

 

[jasnw]

I agree with the previous poster. I've done something like this using python, not with a GUI interface however, and it was pretty simple to set up. I'd say pasting a GUI on it would be pretty easy (if you know how to do that, which I don't - I'm a CLI sort of bloke).