</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 ...

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 ...

[[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 ...

So the other day I had a situation for a client where I needed to workaround a bug where some software wouldn't mount an array properly. A single command on the shell was all that was needed, but ...

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Finder lacks a New File command, which can be frustrating for users moving from Windows. You can add a New File command to Finder using Shortcuts and AppleScript. This simple tweak streamlines the ...