A simple AEM author start up script for local development

startup.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# For terminal output colors
GREEN="\033[1;32m"
NOCOLOR="\033[0m"

# Declare a variable to store the port number
port=4502

echo -e "${GREEN}=============================================${NOCOLOR}"
echo -e "${GREEN}*********************************************${NOCOLOR}"
echo " "
echo -e "${GREEN}STARTUP AUTHOR INSTANCE${NOCOLOR}"
echo -e "${GREEN}RUNNING ON PORT: $port${NOCOLOR}"
echo " "
echo -e "${GREEN}*********************************************${NOCOLOR}"
echo -e "${GREEN}=============================================${NOCOLOR}"

# Kill any process running on the target port
kill -9 $(lsof -i:$port)

# Start the AEM instance
java -jar aem-author-*.jar -gui -port $port -debug 5005

Place this file in the same folder as the jar and crx-quickstart directory. This script can be reused for publish as well by changing the port to 4503