</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 ...

Jamf Threat Labs, a team of Mac and mobile security experts, have identified a new ClickFix-style attack that ditches the ...

Jamf Threat Labs has discovered a ClickFix-style macOS attack that abuses the applescript:// URL scheme to launch Script ...

ClickFix attacks targeting Mac users now use Script Editor instead of Terminal, a shift that sidesteps Apple's latest ...

We know that there are some diehard AppleScript fans out there, so we thought telling you about "ash" might be a good idea. Ash (as in bash) is a Perl-based script from Hayne of Tintangel where you ...

[[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 ...

I was listening to some podcasters I respect arguing about nuances in software development the other day, and thought to myself: I have no idea what these guys are talking about. The pinnacle of my ...

The latest update to Pixelmator Pro introduces support for AppleScript, opening up a range of automation tasks for the application. AppleScript is an Apple-developed scripting language for macOS that ...

When a victim clicks an “Execute” button, the site calls the applescript:// URL scheme, prompting the browser to open Script Editor with malicious code already filled in. That removes the need for the ...

It’s ironic that, in years past, when Apple was planning its next generation operating system (Copland, Rhapsody, and the others that preceded Mac OS X), there was talk of scrapping AppleScript and ...