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peterleary Author

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Running an application with arguments through applescript...

Hi there,

I'm just starting to get my head around AppleScript and I was hoping someone could help me get started on this.

I'm just trying to launch an application with arguments and im having a little trouble.

Firstly I'm not sure how I'd get the actuall path to the application to run...

(Also I'm not sure how you would apply the arguments but just getting it to run would be nice as a start.)

If anyone could help, it would be great!

Thanks,

Pete

macbook pro

Posted on Feb 15, 2013 10:06 PM

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softwater

Level 5

5,556 points

Posted on Feb 16, 2013 2:31 AM

You don't find the path as such, you refer to it by its bundle identifier.

In Applescript, first use

get id of application "name"

where you replace name with the app's common name. In the results of the editor you'll get something like

"com.something.name"

(you may get asked to locate the app visually first through a Finder-like window). That's the bundle identifier. You then use that with 'id' in your commands instead of a path, like

tell application id "com.something.name" to activate

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Tony T1

Level 6

10,232 points

Jun 18, 2015 6:38 AM in response to peterleary

peterleary wrote:

So I created the subl symlink it using

ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl

Now my applescript looks like this - do shell script "/Users/Pete/bin/subl /Users/Pete/bin/test.txt"

And that seems to work great for a start

If you're using do shell script, you can also use the Terminal open command with -a (see man open for other options and examples).

do shell script "open -a Sublime\\ Text\\ 2 /Users/Pete/bin/test.txt"

Running an application with arguments through applescript...