Run a shell script from a PDF generated by LaTeX
On MacOS run:...
hyperlinks are executed using the open
command and, hence, processed by the default application configured for the specific file type. For .sh
files this usually is some text editor.
You can change the default application from the finder (click on an .sh
file and choose "Get Info"), however, MacOS accepts only "valid applications" (.app
compartments) as a target, so the Bash or Tcsh binaries cannot easily be defined as default application :-(
Depending on your case a better solution might be to turn the shell script itself into an app and specify this in your run:
link. This is easily possible using a tool like Appify.
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Dror
Updated on August 01, 2022Comments
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Dror over 1 year
I have a shell script (which should open some program/file) which I want to invoke by clicking on a link in the generated
.pdf
file (in my case a beamer presentation).I tried including:
\href{run:./Demos/run_demo.sh}{DEMO}
in the source code. Then, when clicking on the link (when viewing with acrobat reader) it opens the script in a text editor rather then actually running it. I'm using MacTeX on a Mac OS X system.
What am I doing wrong?
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Werner almost 12 yearsThis kind of problem could be PDF reader specific. See, for example, hyperref: How to open a directory view with href{…}? and MacOS X: insert hyperlink to local file (complete path) in LaTeX? (only working with relativ path).
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Dror almost 12 yearsWorked very nicely! Both from
Skim
andAReader
. One remark though: In the.sh
script, the path should be absolute rather then relative - otherwise, the generated.app
bundle doesn't work. -
user2482876 over 10 yearsI'm having the same problem here. I tried using
.command
instead of.sh
to have the file opened by default by Terminal and it didn't work. I also tried using an applescript saved as a.app
to run the shell script without more success. I'm using Adobe Reader by the way. It seems that Adobe Reader consider what is in therun:
command as a file to open, not an app.