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I have a script that activates Terminal.app, create a new window before it creates 3 new tabs (for 4 tabs in total) that ssh to a remote server at work. I use it on two different users (independent me and work me) on different Macs. The scripts are on Dropbox, so that they are synchronized to all the computers and users.

But for one user the script doesn't work until I allready have created a tab and logged into the remote server. I only get the following error.

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Error Number:Can’t get text 1 thru 19 of "bash — bash".
-1728
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The script in question:
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-- `menu_click`, by Jacob Rus, September 2006
-- 
-- Accepts a list of form: `{"Finder", "View", "Arrange By", "Date"}`
-- Execute the specified menu item.  In this case, assuming the Finder 
-- is the active application, arranging the frontmost folder by date.

on menu_click(mList)
    local appName, topMenu, r
    
    -- Validate our input
    if mList's length < 3 then error "Menu list is not long enough"
    
    -- Set these variables for clarity and brevity later on
    set {appName, topMenu} to (items 1 through 2 of mList)
    set r to (items 3 through (mList's length) of mList)
    
    -- This overly-long line calls the menu_recurse function with
    -- two arguments: r, and a reference to the top-level menu
    tell application "System Events" to my menu_click_recurse(r, ((process appName)'s (menu bar 1)'s (menu bar item topMenu)'s (menu topMenu)))
end menu_click

on menu_click_recurse(mList, parentObject)
    local f, r
    
    -- `f` = first item, `r` = rest of items
    set f to item 1 of mList
    if mList's length > 1 then set r to (items 2 through (mList's length) of mList)
    
    -- either actually click the menu item, or recurse again
    tell application "System Events"
        if mList's length is 1 then
            click parentObject's menu item f
        else
            my menu_click_recurse(r, (parentObject's (menu item f)'s (menu f)))
        end if
    end tell
end menu_click_recurse

-- Matthew Lambie, November 2007
-- http://lambie.org

-- Opens a Terminal with four tabs that then each reconnect to named screen 
-- sessions or if that window is already opened, reapply focus

global window_id
global window_name
set window_id to 0
set window_name to ""
set user to "tsd"
set server to "<servername>"
set user_at to user & "@" & server

-- MAINLINE
tell application "Terminal"
    activate
    
    -- get every window id
    set w_ids to (id of every window)
    
    -- with each window id...
    repeat with w_id in w_ids
        
        -- have we found our target window_id?
        if window_id is equal to 0 then
            
            -- load this window's name
            set w_name to name of window id w_id
            
            -- is this the window we're looking for?
            if (text 1 thru (count user_at) of w_name) is equal to user_at then
                set window_id to w_id
                set window_name to name of window id window_id
            end if
        end if
    end repeat
    
    -- if we have a window_id then we can give that window
    -- the focus, otherwise we need to make a new window
    -- with four tabs and execute the ssh/screen command in
    -- each of those four tab 
    
    if (window_id is not equal to 0) then
        -- give that window the focus
        set frontmost of window id window_id to true
    else
        
        -- make a new window with the execution of a trivial command
        do script "clear"
        
        -- load up the window id of the window we just created
        set window_id to id of first window whose frontmost is true
        
        -- make tabs 2, 3 and 4
        repeat with i from 1 to 3
            my menu_click({"Terminal", "Shell", "New Tab", "Ocean"})
        end repeat
        
        -- for each of the four tabs we've now made
        repeat with i from 1 to 4
            
            -- build the command, then execute it
            -- set cmd to "clear; ssh -t " & server & " 'screen -d -R tfg_" & i & "'"
            set cmd to "janus"
            do script cmd in tab i of window id window_id of application "Terminal"
            
        end repeat
    end if
end tell
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It is a script that I have found on the Internet and edited to fit with my need, the original parts are in the script commented.

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