![]() ![]() set x to trueset y to falseset z to (x or y) - z is trueWhy did I tell you all this? Well, in some circumstances you want a set of instructions to beexecuted only if multiple conditions are met. In contrast, for the ‘or’ operator, it suffices if one of x and y is true. ‘not true’ is false, and ‘not false’ is t x to not true - So, x is falseAs demonstrated in the following script, for the ‘and’ operator, both x and y have to betrue for z to be t x to trueset y to trueset z to (x and y) - z is true The result of such an operation is again Boolean.‘not’ is the simplest of the three. For Boolean operators, we have ‘and’, ‘or’and ‘not’. Ifyou use such an operator, the result is a number. You can use the strategies from this and the previous posts to combine AppleScript with Shell Scripting and other languages to get the best of both worlds.’ and ‘-’. Nevertheless, it has features which are hard to match with other scripting languages. I generally recommend to run osascript in the user context, as detailed in this post: Running a Command as another User ConclusionĪppleScript’s bad reputation may be deserved, because its syntax is strange, and often very inconsistent. In this case, certain features of AppleScript may behave strangely, or not at all. Management scripts often run as a privileged user or root. I have a longer post detailing this: Avoiding AppleScript Security and Privacy Requests osascript and root The other option is to find solutions that avoid sending AppleEvents altogether. In this case you have to pre-approve the application that launches the script, which can sometimes also be challenge. You can avoid these dialogs by creating PPPC (Privacy Preferences Policy Control) profiles that are distributed from an MDM server. Mac Admins generally want their automations to run without any user interactions. But if you put your AppleScript code (or shell scripts calling AppleScript) into other apps or solutions, it could get messy quite quickly. These dialogs are easy enough to deal with when running from Terminal. Without this, any process could use AppleEvents to gather all kinds of data from any process. If you didn’t get this dialog, you must have gotten it at an earlier time and already approved the access.ĪppleEvents between applications are controlled by the macOS Privacy architecture. When you ran the above script, you may have gotten this dialog: You can combine this into a longer script: To access arguments passed into a script this way, you need to wrap the main code into a run handler: #!/usr/bin/osascript It is easier to use a heredoc instead: osascript print_finder_path.applescript When you have multiple lines of script, using multiple -e statements will quickly become cumbersome and unreadable. (The ‘Cancel’ button actually causes the AppleScript to abort with an error, so no label will be returned for that.) ![]() In this case, it is the label of the button clicked in the dialog. Osascript prints the value of the last command to stdout. You can have multiple -e options which will work like multiple lines of a single AppleScript: > osascript -e 'display dialog "Hello from shell"' -e 'button returned of result' The following argument is AppleScript code. The -e option tells osascript that it will get one or more lines of statements as arguments. The most common use is the user interaction commands from AppleScript, like display dialog: osascript -e 'display dialog "Hello from shell"' ![]() The osascript command allows us to run AppleScript commands from Terminal and shell. This framework allows AppleScript to have its native language, but also use JavaScript syntax. ![]() OSA is short for ‘Open Scripting Architecture’ which is the framework that powers AppleScript. The key to running AppleScript from the shell is the osascript command. In this post, we will look at how we can run AppleScript commands and scripts from the shell environment. In the last post, we discussed how to run shell commands and scripts from an Apple Script environment. ![]()
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