terminal command for current app

[sawmaster]

Hey.

Is there a command for terminal to get the current application?

Thanks!

 

[miles01110]

No, because if you were doing this with Terminal the current application would always be "Terminal."

If you want a list of processes currently running on your machine, type the command

top

 

[BlueRevolution]

No, because if you were doing this with Terminal the current application would always be "Terminal."

Yes, the command is

echo Terminal

 

[darelon]

@sawmaster - not completely sure this is what you're looking for, but you can get the path of the application that is frontmost using a shell command like this:

osascript -e 'POSIX path of (path to frontmost application)'

 

[sawmaster]

@sawmaster - not completely sure this is what you're looking for, but you can get the path of the application that is frontmost using a shell command like this:

osascript -e 'POSIX path of (path to frontmost application)'

I know this topic is old, but i forgot to reply.

I wanted to try to use PHP to get the current app using the shell (i forgot the exact name of it) function in php.