Programmatically launch bash shell command 'osascript' using java

Question

I've tried with:

ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("osascript script.scpt");
pb.inheritIO();
pb.directory(new File("bin"));
try {
    pb.start();
} catch (IOException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

but I always get the error "no such file or directory". I've tried also with:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("osascript script.scpt");

but nothing happens.

I also tried using this string in both the snippets above, but nothing changed.

osascript -e 'tell application \"Safari\" to quit'

You should use ProcessBuilder proc = new ProcessBuilder("osascript", "script.scpt"); — Daniele
– Daniele, Commented Jun 9, 2018 at 20:37
Dupe stackoverflow.com/questions/11593849/… and stackoverflow.com/questions/6856028/… . Note you are not running a bash command; ProcessBuilder or Runtime.exec runs a program in a fashion similar in some respects to a shell (including bash) command but not identical. — dave_thompson_085
– dave_thompson_085, Commented Jun 9, 2018 at 23:23

zaxunobi · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-09 23:28:59Z

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I was able to fix the issue by using this

ProcessBuilder proc = new ProcessBuilder("osascript", "script.scpt");

This is because there's no tokenisation: the command to run is assumed to have already been tokenised.

answered Jun 9, 2018 at 23:28

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