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" ...

Now that you've mastered the tell command, it's time to introduce some of the other AppleScript commands that you may encounter. This command will allow you to open a specific location (either on your ...

AppleScript is Apple's powerful automation language for macOS. Here's how to use it to speed up your workflow when using your Mac. AppleScript was born in the early 1990's at Apple in an attempt to ...

I will start with the conclusion.I had Claude Code operate the photo development software Capture One. It didn't look at the ...

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 ...

So I have a perl script that pulls some handy dandy info out of the xml file produced by the system_profiler shell command. It works just fine, in general. I wanted to make sure it wasn't producing ...

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 ...