oascript missing in Mac OS 10.5.8

Question

$ oascript
zsh: command not found: oascript

Does anyone know what's up?

Doug Harris · Answer 1 · 2009-10-05 21:45:17Z

up vote 4 down vote accepted

$ type -a oascript
-bash: type: oascript: not found
$ type -a osascript
osascript is /usr/bin/osascript

Perhaps you meant osascript and not oascript

answered Oct 5 '09 at 21:45

okay, that was dumb. thanks! :-) – rz. Oct 6 '09 at 5:21

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Chealion · Answer 2 · 2009-10-05 22:11:44Z

To run Applescript from the command line or in a shell script you need to use o**s**ascript.

eg.

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' -e 'activate' -e 'display dialog "Hello World!"' -e 'end tell'

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