Running Scripts Only When Closing a Bunch

If you precede any script lines (starting with *, &, or $) with an exclamation point, that script will be ignored when opening a Bunch and instead run only when the Bunch is closed. Here’s an example that uses the same script with different arguments for open and quit:

# Run this when opening the Bunch
$ ~/scripts/myscript.sh open
- STATUS=opening

# Run this when closing the bunch
!$ ~/scripts/myscript.sh close
- STATUS=closing

The same works for commands. To run a command when a Bunch closes, use:

!(hide dock)

Launching Multiple Items on Close

You can also set an entire snippet to open when the Bunch closes using the same syntax. Just use !<snippet.name to have the contents of that snippet or snippet fragment load when the Bunch is closed.

!<<#On Close
___
#[On Close]
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* tell application "Moom" to arrange windows according to snapshot "Comms"

Launch an App When Closing

Note that in the case of apps, a single exclamation point (!AppName) quits the app rather than performing an action on close. Bunch doesn’t automatically relaunch apps that are quit this way; you have to explicitly instruct it with !! (a double negative).

The following will force quit Dropbox when opening the Bunch, and then restart it when closing.

$ killall Dropbox
!!Dropbox

To quit Twitter when opening the Bunch, then re-launch it on close:

!Twitter
!!Twitter

Quit an App When Closing

Normally an app launched by a Bunch would quit when the Bunch closes (unless ignored with %). You can also specify that an app should quit when closing a Bunch — without having to launch it first — by using !!!AppName. If the app is running, it will be quit when the Bunch closes, but the item will have no effect when opening the Bunch.

// Slack is quit when this Bunch is closing
!!!Slack

This can be useful as a workaround when an app like FileMaker Pro Advanced or Visual Studio Code will launch with one name, but needs another to quit. In the case of FileMaker, you would use:

FileMaker Pro 18 Advanced
!!!FileMaker Pro Advanced

(The specific cases of FileMaker and VS Code are handled automatically by Bunch, but there will almost certainly be other examples of this where you’ll need to manually specify.)