You're right. It works without the quotes. Thanks for straightening me out.
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On December 16, 2018 at 11:50:24 PM [-0800],
Steve Derosier wrote in an email entitled
"Re: Osascript/tcsh Question":
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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