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Re: Killing an appleScript applet
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Re: Killing an appleScript applet


  • Subject: Re: Killing an appleScript applet
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 09:14:18 +1000

On 30 May 2014, at 6:11 am, Stockly, Ed <email@hidden> wrote:

set appletName to "RunningScript.app"
set 
processToKill to ""
set 
processList to do shell script "ps -x"  
repeat with 
thisProcess in paragraphs of processList
   if thisProcess contains appletName then
       set 
processToKill to thisProcess as text
       set PID to word 1 of processToKill

FWIW, System Events can give you the PID directly:

tell application "System Events" to set pid to unix id of process "Safari"

-- 
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>

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