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I have a sh-script in MacOS that launches my application. I can use Automator to create executable desctop icon for it but manually.

Is there any way automatically create a desktop icon that will execute this sh-script by double-clicking on this icon? And also I would like to create such icon using some parameters like a path to custom image of the icon.

Note. In our project we have a number of jar-files for about 100Mb. So now I use sh-script with configuration to launch the application.

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    Are you asking how to create an installer for a java application? Like: stackoverflow.com/questions/1536190/… ??? Icons are Icons, not programs. Your question is pretty unclear ... Commented Aug 15, 2017 at 13:26
  • At this point I don't need an installer. Just tie sh-script with desktop icon, not manually. Answer about creating app folder might be the right one, I'll try. Commented Aug 15, 2017 at 13:46
  • The answer with the ".command" extension is the simplest. Commented Aug 15, 2017 at 13:50
  • @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen I know how to execute sh-script by double-clicking. The question is how to automatically create the executable desktop icon for sh-script. Commented Aug 15, 2017 at 13:52
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    echo java -whatever foo bar > ~/Desktop/foo.command Commented Aug 15, 2017 at 13:54

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You can create an app folder for your application and put the icon you want in it.

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Thank you very much. It might be very good solution. I would like to ask: in our application we have a lot of jar-files so is it possible to put sh-script in such folder?
@KirillCh Yes. You MUST include a launcher somewhere in the structure. There is a binary version that comes with MacOs, but there is an open-source alternative that is a shell script: github.com/tofi86/universalJavaApplicationStub

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