Question

I would like to do the following thing:

Click on a script or executable and automatically open 4 Terminal Windows. Each Terminal window should open a command like: “ssh server.com tail -f /var/log/log.txt”.
The command for each window will be different.
All 4 windows should be tiled on the desktop, so I can watch them simultaniously.

I tried to do it with automator or a Terminal script, however I didn’t find a good solution.

How would you do something like that? Which tool would you use?

Answer 1

You’ll want to use AppleScript. This’ll get you started:

tell application "Terminal"
    activate
    repeat 4 times
        do script "ssh server.com tail -f /var/log/log.txt"
    end repeat
    repeat with win in windows 1 thru 4
        set bounds of win to {0, 0 1000, 1000}
    end repeat
end tell

(You’ll have to play with the window moving part, but that’s the basic idea of how you do it.)