running wget with terminal=false

[simonkub]

Hi!

I'm trying to start a bashscript with bitbar, which then runs a wget post request on a webserver in my local network. The problem is, that as soon as I set terminal=falsewget is not executed. While it works with terminal=true or when starting the script from terminal I can't get it running trough bitbar.

The line in the bitbar-plugin:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Boxen an | terminal=false bash='~/Documents/bitbar/kommandozentrale/1_1_1.sh'"

and 1_1_1.sh (which is executable) :

#!/bin/bash
wget -bqO- http://rpi.local/php/send.php --post-data "steckdose=1_1_1" &>/dev/null

I also tried running the wget command directly from bitbar with specifying the parameters with param1=foo but it results to the same behavior.

Has anyone an idea?

[iosdeveloper]

Can you try an absolute path (replacing the ~ with /Users/user, assuming the script is indeed executable) or bash=/bin/bash param1=path/to/script?

[iosdeveloper]

If you want it in a single script, try something like this:

if [ "$1" = action ]; then
  wget -bqO- http://rpi.local/php/send.php --post-data "steckdose=1_1_1" &>/dev/null
  return
fi

echo "Boxen an | bash=$0 param1=action terminal=false"

[simonkub]

ls -lsays its executable

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sim  staff  129 13 Aug 09:26 1_1_1.sh

Changing ~to the absolute path doesn't change anything. Moving the command in the plugin itself with yout snippet doesn't work, too.

I don't get why it "needs" the terminal output to run, even if wget is mutet with the -bO.

[iosdeveloper]

Try curl maybe?

curl -s --data "steckdose=1_1_1" http://rpi.local/php/send.php

[simonkub]

I tried curlbefore trying it with wget, but I also had no luck there.

If I find some time later, I'm tying to get it to work with php and/or php-curl. I'll keep you updated.

[robertjacobson]

I have a similar issue. I have a python script that executes a few different applescripts. When terminal=false is set, the scripts do not run. When terminal=true they run just fine. Executing the command inside a terminal session works. I've tried using a bash string instead of string formatting. Executing the scripts in applescript editor works. Executing them via the python environment works. And executing them via zsh works. So the issue seems to be bitbar, not the scripts. As @simonkub mentioned, I'd tried rewriting the script to call itself, then call applescript, and it makes no difference.

Likewise, here's a few snippets: youtubeClick = '/Users/rjadmin/Documents/automation/youtube_play_pause.applescript'

print '{0} | bash=osascript param1={1} param2={2} terminal=true refresh=true'.format(title, youtubeClick, url)

[iosdeveloper]

@robertjacobson Try /usr/bin/osascript or which osascript instead of just osascript.

[robertjacobson]

tldr: @iosdeveloper that worked, thank you!

I could've swore I tried that, but I must've tried it before when I was sending the parameters as a single string. Thanks.

[napravicukod]

I had the same issue with a node script. Setting the option terminal="false" did not run the script in the background.

This is a solution:

console.log(`Run in background | terminal="false" bash="/usr/local/bin/node" args="/Users/user/work/bitbar/myplugin/file.js__351760"`)

Note that arguments are separated by __ (double underscore).

If this is applicable to other languages, it should be documented.

[GetToSet]

I had the same issue with a node script. Setting the option terminal="false" did not run the script in the background.

This is a solution:

console.log(`Run in background | terminal="false" bash="/usr/local/bin/node" args="/Users/user/work/bitbar/myplugin/file.js__351760"`)

Note that arguments are separated by __ (double underscore).

If this is applicable to other languages, it should be documented.

After hours of search for solution, this thread finally solved my problem.

[gingerlime]

bumped into this as well, but I'm not sure how to get it to work, even with @napravicukod workaround... If I run with terminal=true it works fine, with terminal=false it doesn't (and obviously there's no easy way to debug without the terminal).

I'm trying something very simple, to allow me to toggle the bitbar state via touching and rming a flag file, so script looks like this more or less (simplified)

#!/bin/bash
if [ -f ~/tmp/flag ]; then
    echo "."
    echo ---
    echo 'resume |terminal=false refresh=true bash="rm ~/tmp/flag"'
    exit 0
fi

# plugin code here
echo ---
echo 'pause |terminal=false refresh=true bash="touch ~/tmp/flag"'

hardcoding the full path (instead of ~) doesn't seem to help either.

Any tips on how to make this work with terminal=false?

[gingerlime]

found a workaround here, which feels a bit odd, but seems to work. So my script to pause/resume a plugin looks like this now

#!/bin/bash

if [[ "$1" = "pause" ]]; then
    touch ~/tmp/flag
fi
if [[ "$1" = "resume" ]]; then
    rm ~/tmp/flag
fi

if [ -f ~/tmp/flag ]; then
    echo "."
    echo ---
    echo "resume |terminal=false refresh=true bash=$0 param1=resume"
    exit 0
fi

# plugin code here
echo ---
echo "pause |terminal=false refresh=true bash=$0 param1=pause"