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30 points nateb2022 | 2 comments | 06 Jul 25 16:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.428s | source

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This is legend. I’ll be putting this to extensive use tomorrow.

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robterrell ◴[06 Jul 25 22:37 UTC] No.44484747[source]▶

You've always had this ability, but with more convoluted syntax:

  osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"whatever\""

Specify the application too with multiple -e parameters. This will copy whatever is selected in Safari:

  osascript -e "tell application \"Safari\" to activate" -e "tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"c\" using {command down}"

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eviks ◴[07 Jul 25 02:58 UTC] No.44486334[source]▶

How do you stimulate delays, animation intervals, key down/ups a with System Events?

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1. bestham ◴[07 Jul 25 06:09 UTC] No.44487231[source]▶

Apple Script is a programming language and you have full control flow at your disposal to wait and branch as needed.

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2. eviks ◴[07 Jul 25 06:22 UTC] No.44487294[source]▶

This is too generic to answer this specific question. Key down, for example, is not an inherent property of a programming language.

(and neither is delay precision guarantees, which might be important for some key sequences)

Sendkeys: Command line tool for automating keystrokes and mouse events on macOS