It seems this "Execute Shell Script" action won't complete. [image] The goal is to run a command in the background and save its process ID to a variable so I can later stop it. More specifically, I want to disable system sleep while the macro is running. I have tested this in an interactive shell…

I think you might need to assign the pid to a KM variable within the shell script. See here . The method seems a little convoluted to me so I tried to find another way. The following seems to work. At the start of your macro, put caffeinate on is own in an Execute Shell Script macro (the -i flag c…

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kevinb July 16, 2023, 4:29pm 5

Caffeinate Screen Sharing Macro (v9.2)
"... it uses pgrep to automatically get the PID..."

Execute shell script in background

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