OSX - How to auto Close Terminal window after the exit command executed

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When I m done with Terminal  I want to exit it  Right now  I have three options    killall Terminal  It will end the process  but rather abruptly  I don t think this is the best idea  Call exit  I ve changed the settings so exit closes Terminal  The app still appears open in the Dock though  and doesn t do what I want it to do  Right click Quit  However  this isn t a Terminal command to exit it    So now  what is the way I should exit and close Terminal  I ve heard something about osascript but I m not too sure  I want to exit and close  so that Terminal is no longer open  both as a window and as a process

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Actually  you should set a config on your Terminal  when your Terminal is up press     then you will see below screen     Then press shell tab and you will see below screen     Now select Close if the shell exited cleanly for When the shell exits   By the above config each time with exit command the Terminal will close but won t quit

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If this is a Mac you type  exit  then press return

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I ve been using   quit -n terminal   at the end of my scripts  You have to have the terminal set to never prompt in preferences   So Terminal   Preferences   Settings   Shell  When the shell exits Close the window Prompt before closing Never

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osascript -e  tell application   System Events   to keystroke   w   using command down   This simulates a CMD   w keypress   If you want Terminal to quit completely you can use  osascript -e  tell application   System Events   to keystroke   q   using command down   This doesn t give any errors and makes the Terminal stop cleanly

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You could use AppleScript through the osascript command   osascript -e  tell application  Terminal  to quit

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Use the osascript command in your code as icktoofay mentioned  osascript -e  tell application  Terminal  to quit   Then  open Terminal preferences  go to Settings   Shell  and set  Prompt before closing   to  Never   Terminal should now quit completely  not remain open in your dock  and ignore the prompt before quitting  If you have only one Terminal window open and the osascript command is your last line of code  it should wait for whatever command you ran before to finish   This would not be ideal if you are running scripts in the same window or other windows in the background  for instance  you may run a command in the background and continue using the current window for other commands if the first command is followed by an ampersand   be careful   If you wrap the osascript code in a shell script file  you can probably call it with whatever pithy file-name you give it---as long as it is in Terminal s search path  run echo  PATH to see where Terminal looks for scripts

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You can also use this convoluted command  which does not trigger a warning about terminating its own process  osascript -e  do shell script   osascript -e     tell application         Terminal         to quit      amp  gt   dev null  amp      exit  This command is quite long  so you could define an alias  such as quit  in your bash profile  alias quit  osascript -e  do shell script   osascript -e     tell application         Terminal         to quit      amp  gt   dev null  amp      exit   This would allow you to simply type quit into terminal without having to fiddle with any other settings

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in Terminal app  Preferences   Profiles    Select a Profile    Shell   on  When the shell exits  chosen  Close the window

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I tried several variations of the answers here   No matter what I try  I can always find a use case where the user is prompted to close Terminal   Since my script is a simple  drutil -drive 2 tray open -- to open a specific DVD drive   the user does not need to see the Terminal window while the script runs   My solution was to turn the script into an app  which runs the script without displaying a Terminal window   The added benefit is that any terminal windows that are already open stay open  and if none are open  then Terminal doesn t stay resident after the script ends   It doesn t seem to launch Terminal at all to run the bash script   I followed these instructions to turn my script into an app  https   superuser com a 1354541 162011

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In the Terminal app  Preference    Profiles tab   Select the Shell tab on the right    You can choose Never Ask before closing to suppress the warning

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I  ve been using ctrl   d  It throws you out into the destination where You ve started the sqlite3 command in the first place

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Create a script   cat   exit scpt  like this    Note  If there is only one window  just quit the application  else simulate command   w to close the tab    tell application  Terminal      set WindowNum to get window count     if WindowNum   1 then         quit     else         tell application  System Events  to keystroke  w  using command down     end if end tell   Then add a alias in your  shrc  just like vi    bashrc or zshrc  anything else    add it  alias exit  osascript   exit scpt   And source the    bashrc or reopen your terminal app

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How about the good old Command-Q

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In a terminal window  you can type   kill -9   ps -p  PPID -o ppid     This will kill the Terminal application process  which is the parent of the parent of the current process  as seen by the kill command     To close a Terminal window from within a running script  you need to go up one more level in the process hierarchy like this   kill -9   ps -p   ps -p  PPID -o ppid   -o ppid

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