Rendering Shake Scripts Through The Terminal

Save your Shake script with the FileOut and the appropriate time range set.
Double check your proxyScale, proxyRatio etc.

Save and close Shake.

Open a Terminal Shell

4-terminal

Type "cd" then hit space bar to add a space.

Then drag the folder that has the Shake scene in it.

5-terminal drag

Hit "enter" on the keyboard.

Then type "ls" to see all the files in your folder.

6-ls files

Type the following in the terminal:
shake -v -exec myFile.shk

Then sit back and watch the shell update...

If you want to do a test render without changing the file, use this code:
shake -v proxyRatio .5 -exec myFile.shk

If you want to specify or change the time range insert this flag: -t 1-200