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Integrated GUI and OS X command-line application

Is it possible to create one application for Mac OS X that can be run strictly from the * nix command line (using stdin / stdout, from the terminal console or via ssh, etc.), but can I also start from the application icon and use the Mac GUI for all user interactions (no terminal needed)? If so, how?

I can already achieve something similar using two executable files: one for the GUI interface for the other, with pipes, sockets, shared memory or Applescript (et.al.) for communication. This question is whether I can do this using one executable and single-process application space.

Is there a way to do this without passing a new command line argument to the command line executable? (since there are obsolete problems associated with using the command line application).

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What you are looking for, I believe, is a way to determine if you are running from the GUI or command line. An easy way would be to get the parent process id. If you are a graphical user interface, you are launched using launchd (launch a user session). If you are a command line, then the shell or script started you (in any case, DO NOT run).

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Sorry if I miss the point, but if you use objective-C, it is not part of the answer to using the NSProcessInfo class in objective-C and look at the "arguments" variable to determine if there were any arguments and then state your code in code on what to do next?

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