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Re: Fwd: Bring Finder to Front via ssh?
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Re: Fwd: Bring Finder to Front via ssh?


  • Subject: Re: Fwd: Bring Finder to Front via ssh?
  • From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 19:30:46 -0600

at 2002 08 07, 12:28 -0700, they whom i call email@hidden wrote:
What you should be able to do (but I can't get to work):
osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to activate"

[...]
I don't know what's up with the -e option; it doesn't want to recognize
paired ""s...

just use single quotes on the outside:

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to activate'

i doubt this would work on a ssh session, though, since
you'd be logged into a session separate from the regular
user session, and there wouldn't be a graphical context in
which Finder could run.. have to puzzle over a solution for
that ...

--
steve harley email@hidden
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