Question

how can I tell how many Terminal windows (in mac os x) are currently opened?
this needs to be done from a shell script.

thanks,

Answer 1

This script does what you ask for, you use osascript to run it from the cmd line.

tell application "Terminal"
    set c to 0
    repeat with i from 1 to (count of windows)
        set c to c + (count of tabs in window i)
    end repeat
    c
end tell

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Edit by Bavarious: In order to use Adam’s AppleScript inside a shell script, you can do the following:

#!/bin/bash
read -d '' OSASCRIPT << EOF
    tell application "Terminal"
        set c to 0
        repeat with i from 1 to (count of windows)
            set c to c + (count of tabs in window i)
        end repeat
        c
end tell
EOF

nwindows=$(osascript -e "${OSASCRIPT}")