Automate running script for each simulator

[igroti]

Is there any way we can automate the script so that inject runs for each simulator, instead of running it manually for each result of xcrun <UDID>?

[clindsay3]

Hmm, you could probably grep the output of xcrun simctl list and somehow pull the list of ID's out of that, and then run the script on each one. But I haven't attempted something like that.

[clindsay3]

ChatGPT came up with the same idea. I haven't tried it, but you could do something like this:

https://chat.openai.com/share/23e601a8-6ae5-4db1-8f79-6d966cd25319

[igroti]

xcrun simctl list devices | grep "(Booted)" | grep -E -o -i "([0-9a-f]{8}-([0-9a-f]{4}-){3}[0-9a-f]{12})"

This outputs the list of booted simulators. Now I just have to find how to run build_and_inject.sh VALUE for each line of an output such as:

123
ABC
XYZ

[clindsay3]

This might work

xcrun simctl list devices | grep "(Booted)" | grep -E -o -i "([0-9a-f]{8}-([0-9a-f]{4}-){3}[0-9a-f]{12})" | while read line; do
  ./build_and_inject.sh "$line"
done

[igroti]

That looks like it works! Thanks @chrisvasselli !

(didn't fully test yet as I had already manually run it so status bars were already "cleaned")

Perhaps we can add something to README, like "boot up every wanted simulator and then run this"

[igroti]

@chrisvasselli now I'm looking for a way to quickly boot a list of simulators, given a list of names like

iPhone 13 Pro Max
iPhone 15 Pro Max
iPhone SE (3rd generation)
iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (6th generation)

Basically trying to automate some more of the process

I'm guessing some more of the xcrun simctl list somehow, gonna look into it

EDIT: Maybe my approach is a "XY", and really there is a more direct way to boot sims and run something on them.