OSX Terminal close current tab from command line without prompt?

Question

Looking for a way to close the current tab via the command line, I hashed this out, but end up getting a prompt for Do you really want to close which I would like to avoid. Here's my code,

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke "w" using command down'

Possible duplicate of [Close Terminal window from within shell script (Unix)?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8798641/close-terminal-window-from-within-shell-script-unix) — bob, Mar 16 '17 at 17:17

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '14 at 22:42

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Why didn't use the:

Terminal.app -> Preferences -> Settings -> Shell

and for the items:

"When the shell exists:" Close if the shell exited cleanly
"Prompt before closing:" Only if there are...." (or Never)

answered Sep 08 '14 at 22:42

jm666

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Cheers, good answer I hadn't thought of that. +1 and accepted. – ehime Sep 08 '14 at 22:49
@ehime happy to help :) – jm666 Sep 08 '14 at 22:51
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Not sure when this changed, but in 10.14 (Mojave) they're under `Preferences` -> `Profiles` -> `Shell` – esmail Nov 27 '19 at 02:15

OSX Terminal close current tab from command line without prompt?

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