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

Question

When I\'m done with Terminal, I want to exit it. Right now, I have three options:

1. killall Terminal. It will end the process, but rather abruptly. I don\'t t

Answer 1

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=) 

Answer 2

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\\\" &> /dev/null &\""; 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\\\" &> /dev/null &\""; exit'

This would allow you to simply type quit into terminal without having to fiddle with any other settings.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

If this is a Mac you type 'exit' then press return.

Answer 5

in Terminal.app

Preferences > Profiles > (Select a Profile) > Shell.

on 'When the shell exits' chosen 'Close the window'

Answer 6

You could use AppleScript through the osascript command:

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to quit'