This is on 10.5.2. I've read a ton of examples online and this seems to work for everyone else, so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. In it's simplest form: tell application "Terminal" do script "ls" ...

AppleScript Menu can do more than just run AppleScripts. It allows you to run Perl scripts and Shell scripts just as easily! Any shell-based scripting language will work. Shell scripts and Perl ...

AppleScript is one of those technologies that has amazing potential, but seems to be “not quite there yet” in many ways. The basic problem is that supporting AppleScript is up to the application’s ...

I have been using Mavericks for a little while now and I have to admit that I was a little slow to get excited about this release of OS X. Once I started to sink my teeth into some of the power-user ...

Have you ever wondered whether there was a command line way to check iTunes and determine which song is currently playing. The command-line osascript utility makes this an easy problem to solve.

I’m in the process of building various AppleScripts for HomeKit and iTunes playback (you’ll hear about them soon), and I realized I needed to find a way to run a shell command in the Terminal at ...

Last week, Dave mentioned that you can change the file type used system-wide for screenshots. However, some people are afraid of using Terminal.app to muck around with their Mac. In this week's ...