Get A List Of Processes Running On A Mac With JavaScript
This script produces a list of the foreground and background processes running on a mac
Code
#!/usr/bin/env osascript -l JavaScript
const processList = Application("System Events").applicationProcesses;
const appCount = processList.length;
for (let appIndex = 0; appIndex < appCount; appIndex ++) {
console.log(processList[appIndex].name());
}Results
loginwindow
ViewBridgeAuxiliary
SystemUIServer
Dock
ControlCenter
ViewBridgeAuxiliary
AppSSOAgent
QuickLookUIService
etc...Notes
This script is a JavaScript For Automation OSA script
It takes several seconds to run on my machine
You can make it executable and run it as a file or call it from the command line with:
`osascript -l JavaScript FILENAME.js``
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Link the post that shows how to do just the foreground apps