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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Osascript quoting issue Post 302729319 by nextyoyoma on Friday 9th of November 2012 01:27:47 PM
Old 11-09-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by xbin
You missing a strong quote at the beginning of your statement.
Code:
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to return name of every process whose frontmost is true'
             ^*****

Actually that's a typo. Sorry. It doesn't work with strong quotes either.

---------- Post updated at 02:27 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:18 PM ----------

Ok, it looks like it just wasn't working over SSH. What I was actually trying to do was have a little background app pull commands from a mysql database and run them, but something about the formatting must get changed when pulling the command that way, because it fails to run on some machines. I ended up just storing the command within the app and it seems to work fine.
 

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set_color(1)                                                           fish                                                           set_color(1)

NAME

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