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osascript:tldr:f2004
osascript: Run a JavaScript command.
$ osascript -l JavaScript -e "${console-log('Hello world');}"
try on your machine
The command you provided is using the osascript
utility to execute a JavaScript code snippet.
Here's a breakdown of the command:
osascript
: It is a command-line utility on macOS used to execute AppleScript and other scripting languages.-l JavaScript
: This option specifies that the scripting language to be used is JavaScript. This option is not required in recent versions of macOS, as JavaScript is the default language forosascript
.-e
: This option is used to provide a code argument to be executed."${console-log('Hello world');}"
: This is the JavaScript code snippet to be executed. However, this specific code has a syntax error as it is not valid JavaScript.
The code you provided, console-log('Hello world');
, is attempting to call a function named console-log
and pass the string "Hello world"
as an argument. However, the correct JavaScript function name would be console.log
, not console-log
.
To fix the syntax error, you should modify the code as follows:
osascript -l JavaScript -e "console.log('Hello world');"
This revised code will output the string "Hello world"
to the console using JavaScript's console.log()
function when executed through osascript
on a macOS system.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.