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Asked: 2026-06-11T08:31:55+00:00

I used to run the following code in Lion to open terminal, update a

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I used to run the following code in Lion to open terminal, update a project, then open a new tab, and run again to update a second, third, and fourth. Since the Mountain Lion upgrade, this no longer works. Half the time it seems to open Finder at my home directory, and the other half it seems to open the OSX font / text dialog. I’ve confirmed that Cmd+T should still open a new tab. Any idea why it broke?

tell application "Terminal" to activate

tell application "Terminal"

    do script "cd Projects/blahblah/trunk" in front window
    do script "svn up" in front window

end tell

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down
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  1. Editorial Team

    Turns out I needed to tell Terminal to activate between each call for some reason. Lion never made me do that.

    tell application "Terminal" to activate

tell application "Terminal"

    delay 0.25

    do script "cd Projects/firstone/trunk && svn up" in front window
end tell

tell application "Terminal" to activate

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "t" using command down

tell application "Terminal"

    delay 0.25

    do script "cd Projects/secondone/trunk && svn up" in front window

end tell
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