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    <p>I've created a python script I wish to have run automatically when I log in on a mac, and need some help using a Launch Agent to do this. I used SO extensively getting things working up to this point, so I figured this was the place to ask, but I'm still fairly new to this, so I need some help.</p> <p>Here's what I've got so far and what I still need:</p> <p>I have a python script that I can run from the terminal. It periodically will output text to the terminal window whenever it does something important (uses the python 'print' command). It also creates a log of this elsewhere, but I also want the realtime update in a window that stays open.</p> <p>What I now need is a Launch Agent to start this script automatically on login and still output this text. I've gotten a basic Launch Agent working, but it runs the script in the background and I no longer can see the output. Based on my research so far, it looks like I can use the "StandardOutPath" keyword in the Lauch Agent .plist to redirect this output? I don't yet understand stdout/stdin/stderr in these programs well enough to understand how all of this works, but I was hoping to essentially redirect this output, perhaps to an xterm window or similar.</p> <p>I couldn't find a good example of this type of thing anywhere, so there may be a better way to do it, and I'm just not searching for the right thing. Any help or explanation on how all this works would be much appreciated.</p> <p>Updated: My working Launch Agent .plist:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"&gt; &lt;plist version="1.0"&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;Label&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;com.name.WVCS-0.1&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;RunAtLoad&lt;/key&gt; &lt;true/&gt; &lt;key&gt;ProgramArguments&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt; &lt;string&gt;osascript&lt;/string&gt; &lt;string&gt;/Path/to/StartupScript&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/plist&gt; </code></pre>
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