How to Close the Terminal Automatically on macOS

This step-by-step guide explains how to close the terminal automatically on macOS. It covers the required setup, the main actions, and the checks that help prevent common problems.

This method only works when you launch the shell script outside bash such as clicking on it on the Finder or setting a custom hotkey to open the program. If not, you will be taken back to the Command Prompt. You can use the killall Terminal command to close the Terminal app from the script but it will close all open Terminal Windows.

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How to Change Behavior from Profile Settings

Open the Terminal app from Dock or the Apps folder, then open the installation by pressing Command + Comma .

In the Settings Window, open the Profiles Tab. Here, the default profile is always selected. In the settings on the right, select the Shell Tab and then select the drop down menu When the shell exits .

By default, the option Don't close the window Is selected, but you can change it to Close if the shell exited cleanly .

You can close this Terminal window all the time, but will receive an error message if the exit process is in non-zero exit status. Note, you need to exit the script with the Exit Command so that this behavior works at all times.

If launched from the Finder, the exit command will automatically add to the script.

How to Use Iterm

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ITerm2 is a popular Terminal replacement app for macOS, which automatically closes the window when the shell script exits. If you have used iTerm as the default Terminal, you can see that the shell script starting from the Finder remains open with the original Terminal app. So you still have this problem unless you have set it to open with iTerm.

You can change the app to open the script by right-clicking the script in the Finder and then selecting Get Info .

You will see a drop down menu to change the script open app, select iTerm and select Change All To apply changes to the scripts.

By default, if you open the iTerm window, it will launch in a separate tab, not a separate window, and the tab will close automatically when the process is complete.