I've got a shell script that I call that uses osascript, and that osascript calls a shell script and passes in a variable that I've set in the original shell script. I don't know how to pass that v...

Consider the following AppleScript: on is_running(appName) tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName end is_running set safRunning to is_running("Safari") if safRu...

Does anyone know how to send a group message using applescript/osascript? I've tried a bunch of stuff but nothing seems to work.

Unable to build my app suddenly. This is the error which I got after running the caused by: script error: osascript: no such component "JavaScript". Continuing in background. Error: Failed to d...

I'm writing a bash script that takes care of setting the desktop background on my mac. I can set the desktop background with: $ osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to set desktop picture to POSIX file...

There is an AppleScript method: on displayError(theErrorMessage) display dialog theErrorMessage return "done" end displayError I wanna compile this script with passing parameter into (not run ...

I've just done a clean install of macOS Mojave (albeit various bits and pieces reinstalled) and getting a strange error running a bash script which in turn runs AppleScript via osascript. Any comma...

I need AppleScript that, when lunched from command line, will return three things: current active application name; ex. "Google Chrome", "Safari", "Steam", "iTunes", "Atom" ect. current active ap...

I have an AppleScript script that is calling a shell command that I want to convert to JavaScript (JXA) but I don't see the equivalent of do shell script. Here is the script using AppleScript: ...

I have some apple script code: tell application "System Events" key code 97 end tell How do i write the code as a osascript -e command in Terminal? Everytime I try using \n or the such, I get e...

In AppleScript it’s possible to get the the POSIX path of the folder the current script is located in using this line: POSIX path of ((path to me as text) & "::") Example result: /Users/aaro...

The following works to open two tabs in iTerm 2. I can't seem to figure out how to get this to using split panes instead. I've tried applying what I see on several forums, but it never works. Cou...

Is there any way to do this without any programs or scripts? (Maybe through osascript?)

I'm in the final phase of designing a script to automate my Active Directory binding that will be used by multiple people. Because of this, I need to prompt for a user name and password. I've succe...

I am using osascript in Bash to display a message in Notification Center (Mac OS X) via Apple Script. I am trying to pass a text variable from Bash to the script. For a variable without spaces, thi...

I'm reading the scripts from here and trying to understand what's going on. This function performs changing the directory of a Finder window: function ee { osascript -e 'set cwd to do shell scri...

I'm trying to make this script work. It's a Bash script that is meant to take some variables, put them together and use the result to send an AppleScript command. Manually pasting the string echoed...

I'm running into problems with a shell script that utilizes a small portion of Applescript. When I compile it with Applescript editor it works. It does not though within a shell script. 44:49: ...

I'm thinking about writing my own little language. I found a few options, but feel free to suggest more. JVM Parrot OSA A lot of languages are using the JVM, but unless you write a Java-ish la...

I want to list opened windows in the terminal to get x, y, width and height like xwininfo -root -tree for X11. I tried: osacript -e tell application "Microsoft Word" to get the bounds of the fron...