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How to check in AppleScript if an app is running, without launching it – via osascript utility

I suspect the reason you are getting this is because each time you call the script from the command line with osascript the script is being compiled. The act of compiling on a tell application will afaik make the app launch. Calling the script from the command line with osascript from a pre-compiled file i.e … Read more

osascript using bash variable with a space

You could try to use instead : osascript -e “display notification \”$var2\”” Or : osascript -e ‘display notification “‘”$var2″‘”‘ This fixes the problem of manipulation of variables that contains spaces in bash. However, this solution doesn’t protect against injections of osascript code. So it would be better to choose one of Charles Duffy’s solutions or … Read more