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Tagged with macos applescript
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How to make the hardware beep sound in Mac OS X 10.6
I just want that Mac OS X 10.6 does a hardware beep sound like in open suse and other distributions. I tried following approaches
Terminal -> beep = -bash: beep: command not found
Terminal -> say ...
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How do I make a Mac Terminal pop-up/alert? Applescript?
I want to be able to have my program display an alert, notice, whatever that displays my custom text. How is this done? Also, is it possible to make one with several buttons that sets a variable?
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Open an .html file with default browser using Bash on Mac
So, this is what I need :
Let's say I have an index.html file.
How do I tell the terminal to open it using the default browser?
(Using AppleScript, BASH,...?)
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AppleScript Editor, write message to the "Result" window
I am using the Mac OS X Apple Script Editor and (while debugging) instead of writing a lot of display dialog statements, I'd like to write the results of some calculation in the window below, called "...
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How to check in AppleScript if an app is running, without launching it - via osascript utility
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 ...
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Sending commands and strings to Terminal.app with Applescript
I want to do something like this:
tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script "ssh [email protected]"
-- // write user's password
-- // write some linux commands to remote server
end tell
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OSX Lion AppleScript : How to get current space # from mission control?
I'm trying to figure out how to get the current space # from mission control. Source would be helpful, but more helpful would be info on how to figure this out myself. I've written a few ...
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Is there a command-line interface to list all Bluetooth devices in range on mac? [closed]
I want to list all in-range Bluetooth devices, ideally with hostnames, but MAC addresses would be sufficient. I need a command that performs an active scan so I can poll to see if my device is nearby,...
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Launch Finder window with specific files selected
I'm trying to programmatically launch an OS X Finder window from an Xcode project. I need the window to open to a specific folder and have specific files within that folder automatically selected.
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Open URL in new Safari tab with AppleScript
Is it possible to use AppleScript to open a link in a new tab in Safari?
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How to add launch parameter to Google Chrome on Mac? [closed]
I wanna run Chrome on Mac with the parameter --enable-speech-input.
Can anyone tell me the steps to do this and the steps to undo this? (If one day I wanna run Chrome without the launch parameter)
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Is there a quick and easy way to dump the contents of a MacOS X keychain?
I'm looking for a way to dump (export) the contents of an OS X keychain into a file that I can easily process elsewhere, such as tab-delimited plaintext or something of the sort.
The Keychain Access ...
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AppleScript Editor record doesn't work
I have opened the AppleScript Editor and pressed Record button.
Then I run TextEdit, create a file and put some text there.
When I click the Stop button in AppleScript Editor, nothing was recorded, ...
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Programmatically launch Terminal.app with a specified command (and custom colors)
I can launch an xterm from the command line (or a program, via a system call) like so:
/usr/X11/bin/xterm -fg SkyBlue -bg black -e myscript
That will launch an xterm with blue text and a black ...
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"is not allowed for assistive access" error when running AppleScript from Java
I have a Jenkins config that executes Java tests for OS X app using Maven. And when I'm trying to run some AppleScript that requires assistive access for it, different errors appear. So I've tried to ...
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OSX: check if the screen is locked
Is there any way to check if screen is locked in shell or applescript?
Not just check if screensaver is running, but screen is locked by energy saver settings or by pressing ⌃⇧⏏ (shift+control+eject).
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Applescript fails with error (-600) when launched over ssh on Mavericks
I've tried searching for this, and have seen others with similar problems but don't seem to have found an answer anywhere....
I have an AppleScript that I am trying to run over ssh so that I can ...
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Getting RTF data out of Mac OS X pasteboard (clipboard)
According to the man page for pbpaste,
-Prefer {txt | rtf | ps}
tells pbpaste what type of data to look for in the pasteboard
first. As stated above, pbpaste normally ...
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Manipulate OS X windows with script
Ok, so I'm trying to make my setup super simple by creating a script that I can run in the morning that will launch all the applications that I use in the day and lay them out across my 'spaces' how I ...
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Applescript: on clicking Menu Bar item via gui script
I'm trying to make an applescript for an application called F.lux that clicks the menu item "Disable for an Hour" as indicated in the screenshot below:
The element path is indicated in the ...
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is there a way to eject all external hard drives from the command line? (OS X)
Is there a way to eject all the mounted hard drive volumes on an OS X computer from the command line? Applescript is OK if I can wrap that in a shell script.
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concatenate a string and a variable into a string in applescript
I have to write an Applescript to automount a folder depending on the user. Applescript Editor throws this error.
A end of line can’t go after this identifier.
Here the portion of the script that ...
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How can I programmatically add a space to mission control?
I want to create a new space (and also be able to delete it later), without having to go through the standard misson control gui. Is there any way to do this programmatically? Either via terminal ...
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How do I embed an AppleScript in a Python script?
I am trying to embed an AppleScript in a Python script. I don't want to have to save the AppleScript as a file and then load it in my Python script. Is there a way to enter the AppleScript as a string ...
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Determine OS X keyboard layout ("input source") in the terminal/a script?
I would like to determine the OS X keyboard layout (or "input source" as OS X calls it) from the terminal so that I can show it in places like the tmux status bar.
So I want to know if the current ...
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Applescript - Bring window to foreground
I have an application with several windows opened at the same time.
I'd like to bring a specific window to foreground (I know its title).
At the moment I'm using a combination of keys to achieve this ...
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Change OSX keyboard layout("input source") programmatically via terminal or AppleScript?
I am currently switching input sources by running a GUI AppleScript through Alfred, and the GUI script can sometime take up to 1s to complete the change. It gets quite annoying at times.
I have come ...
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run applescript on 2x-click
OK, this feels like an idiot question, but I'm stuck - I don't know the first thing about AppleScript. I have a .scpt file and I want to double-click it and just have it run, but instead every time I ...
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How to activate Mac OS X application with a given process ID?
I know the process id of an application in Mac OS X. How can I switch to it (using applescript, or python, or whatever)?
By "switch", I mean, put in focus.
The usual solution is to use the ...
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How to start new conversation in iMessage using AppleScript?
So I'm working on creating an applescript which essentially automates sending an imessage. What I have working now is:
on run {msg, phoneNum}
tell application "Messages"
set serviceID to ...
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Calling AppleScript from Python without using osascript or appscript?
Is there any way to execute (and obtain the results of) AppleScript code from python without using the osascript command-line utility or appscript (which I don't really want to use (I think?) because ...
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How to write Applescript to press Escape key?
I am writing an apple-script.
In which I need to write code which means to hit escape button.
I'm not getting how to do it.
Can any one help?
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How to programmatically generate a PDF from any document on OSX?
I'm working on a project for OSX where the user can pick a collection of documents (from any application) which I need to generate PDF's from. The standard Macintosh Print dialog has a PDF button ...
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MacOSX: get foremost window title
I am using this code to get the window title:
tell application "System Events"
set frontApp to name of first application process whose frontmost is true
end tell
tell application frontApp
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How do I create a Macintosh Finder Alias From the Command Line?
I am trying to create a Finder Alias from the command line or from a Python program. I have searched the web[1][2][3] and found this bit of applescript:
$ osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to ...
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Un-minimizing an app with Applescript
I'm trying to write a script to un-minimize an app that was previously minimized to dock.
Problem is, I can't find the relevant property. I've tried miniaturized and collapsed but neither the window ...
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How can I programmatically move one Terminal.app window to another space?
If I have several OS-X Terminal.app windows open, how can I move one Terminal window to another space?
I'm happy to use any scripting or programming language to achieve this, but would prefer ...
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Avoiding AppleScript through Ruby: rb-appscript or rubyosa?
Hello fellow Mac rubyists and AppleScript haters,
For those of you that have experience with both rubyosa and rb-appscript, I'd like the hear the pros and cons of each, which one you decided to stick ...
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Applescript get list of running apps?
Applescript newbie question again :) I am trying to create a small applescript that will allow me to select multiple items from a list of currently running applications and then quit those selected ...
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AppleEvents: Send port for process has no send right
I'm seeing this in my Mac OS X Yosemite Console:
AppleEvents: Send port for process has no send right,
port=( port:30743/0x7817 rcv:1,send:0,d:0 limit:5)
(findOrCreate()/AEMachUtils.cp #526)
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Apple Script : How can I copy html content to the clipboard?
I know how to copy plain text to the clipboard:
oascript -e 'set the clipboard to "plain text"'
But the question is how can I copy html contents to the clipboard?
For example, how can I copy the ...
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How to change the desktop folder from "Desktop - Local" to a different folder on mac? [closed]
The files that are displayed on the desktop come from the folder
/Users/USER/Desktop
I am wondering if there is any way to be able to change that so the files that are displayed on the desktop come ...
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Set position of window with AppleScript
I'm trying to set the position of the Messages.app chat window using AppleScript.
tell application "System Events"
set position of window 1 of application "Messages" to {100, 100}
end tell
With ...
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Scripting Office Outlook 2016 on Mac [closed]
I'd like to automate Outlook 2016 on Mac.
The task I'd like to automate is basically the following:
search inbox for mails from the previous week having a specific
pattern in the title
prepare a new ...
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Redirected to applescript editor on clicking apple notification
I am using
osascript -e 'display notification "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" with title "Title"'
to display notifications in Mac. However, on clicking the notification, I am getting redirected to the ...
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Quit All Applications using Applescript?
How would I quit all running user applications using Applescript?
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Adding a script to MacOS finder contextual menu
I want to add an option to the finder context menu that calls hg add %1 with %1 being the full path of the selected file in finder.
Of course there are more useful cases I can think of, to add to the ...
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Applescript to "paste" clipboard
I am working on an Applescript to paste what was last copied to any current field. It is to be used with VoiceOver and the key code way (only way I know how) does not work all of the time.
tell ...
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Quit an application using AppleScript
Whenever I try to quit an application using AppleScript I get the following error
An error of type -9874 has occurred.
The AppleScript command which I am using is
tell application "app_name"
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Bring a window to front in applescript
This is probably a total newbie question but here it is. I am making a pure applescript application. It activates another app and then types. The problem is that when it activates the app, it doesn't ...
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