If I use your alias and just type
quit Microsoft Word
it works fine. Only if I include the quotes like you have it does it
fail with your error message. Perhaps you're over thinking it?
- Steve
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 2:17 PM Rick Gordon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Not specifically a BBEdit question, but I know that there are people on
> the list here that can clarify this for me; please excuse the post if
> it's not acceptable.
>
> Running a tcsh shell, I'm trying to set up an alias that will send an
> orderly Quit command to the application that is the argument of the command.
>
> I want it to work like this:
>
> quit "Microsoft Word"
>
> I've tried this:
>
> alias quit 'osascript -e '\''tell application "System Events" to quit
> application "\!*"'\'
>
> …and this:
>
> alias quit 'osascript -e '\''tell application "System Events" to quit
> application process "\!*"'\'
>
> But I get the error: syntax error: A identifier can’t go after this “"”.
> (-2740)
>
> Can someone please clarify. Thank you.
>
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