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Calling AppleScript from Shells
Calling AppleScript from your UNIX shell environment helps you build a workflow that is controlled from the UNIX environment but can still exploit any GUI-based applications in the desktop world. Realistically, AppleScript is the only language supported under the Mac OS X Open Scripting Architecture by default. The osalang command will reveal the available open scripting interpreters:
osalang –L
Which produces the following result:
ascr appl cgxervdh AppleScript (AppleScript.)scpt appl cgxervdh Generic Scripting System (Transparently supports all installed OSA scripting systems.)
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