Create terminal command shortcut icon

I spent a fair amount of time trying to create shell scripts and to try to get Automator to simply do anything useful. What I'm using now is Shuttle by Fitztrev on github. https://github.com/fitztrev/shuttle Your biggest skillset would be to be able to use his editor to edit the JSON configuration file. But honestly, that was easy enough. You end up with a new icon on the top menu. Clicking this gives you menu items which then run whatever it is you need to do.

Browse to that file in Finder, then right-click it to make alias.

Or save the command you want to run as text using TextEdit or any other text editor, then "chmod+x" to make it executable, and rename it whatever you like with adding ".command" as the file extension.

By any chance, when you saved that command line in the "text editor" (what did you use -- TextEdit?) did you save that file as an rtf file (as opposed to a plain text file)?

You can create an automator workflow that uses the "do shell script" option to run that command, and then save it as an application that you can run from anywhere.

I would think Topher's solution would be the best option.

You could even create Service that accepts files in the Finder.

The next action would be the do shell script action.

Set the script to pass the input as arguments.

Set the script to:

/user/myaccount/applications/andriod/tools/emulator -avd "$1"

Name it something like "Open avd"

Then, you can right-click on any avd file and choose the service you created.

My assumption is you might have multiple avd files (or it will have an updated version). Then, you don't have to change the application to pick a new file.