</pre><BR><BR>All I want it to do is open a new Terminal window and do an 'ls'. What it actually does is open a new terminal window (and just leaves me at a prompt).<BR><BR>My eventual goal is to be ...

Regarding the ability to create a double-clickable Terminal script (see previous item), Scott Lahteine notes that: AppleScript Menu can do more than just run AppleScripts. It allows you to run Perl ...

We know that there are some diehard AppleScript fans out there, so we thought telling you about "ash" might be a good idea. Ash (as in bash) is a Perl-based script from Hayne of Tintangel where you ...

I was listening to some podcasters I respect arguing about nuances in software development the other day, and thought to myself: I have no idea what these guys are talking about. The pinnacle of my ...

North Korean hackers used AppleScript and ClickFix in recent attacks targeting macOS systems at financial organizations.

[[federico]] 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 ...

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It’s ironic that, in years past, when Apple was planning its next generation operating system (Copland, Rhapsody, and the others that preceded Mac OS X), there was talk of scrapping AppleScript and ...