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appify — create the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script

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#!/bin/bash
 
if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.
 
Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:
 
    `basename "$0"` my-script.sh
 
Note that you cannot rename appified apps. If you want to give your app
a custom name, use the second argument:
 
    `basename "$0"` my-script.sh "My App"
 
Copyright (c) Thomas Aylott <http://subtlegradient.com/>
Modified by Mathias Bynens <http://mathiasbynens.be/>
EOF
exit; fi
 
APPNAME=${2:-$(basename "$1" ".sh")}
DIR="$APPNAME.app/Contents/MacOS"
 
if [ -a "$APPNAME.app" ]; then
	echo "$PWD/$APPNAME.app already exists :("
	exit 1
fi
 
mkdir -p "$DIR"
cp "$1" "$DIR/$APPNAME"
chmod +x "$DIR/$APPNAME"
 
echo "$PWD/$APPNAME.app"
subtleGradient commented

@mathiasbynens FTW!
Much better.

I tried to make it work using cp before but couldn't get it working for some strange reason. I forget the original issue I ran into.

mathiasbynens commented

Feel free to backport these changes into your original gist if you like! It’s still your script :) I’ll update my blog post accordingly.

andrewcase commented

Great script guys! Thanks!

subtleGradient commented

Be sure to check out Appify UI also: https://github.com/subtleGradient/Appify-UI

jsbieber commented

I used this today to on a .sh script of mine. When launching the app it states: "You can't open the application...because PowerPC applications are no longer supported. I'm running Mountain Lion. My .sh script runs fine natively, it is small and just uses a couple curl lines to download some tar.gz files. Any ideas?

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