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copied!<p>I suspect the reason you are getting this is because each time you call the script from the command line with osascript the script is being compiled.</p> <p>The act of compiling on a <strong>tell application</strong> will afaik make the app launch.</p> <p>Calling the script from the command line with osascript from a pre-compiled file i.e .<strong>scpt</strong> does not cause this behaviour because the is no compiling to be done.</p> <p>But calling it from a plain text (.txt,.sh ) file will so the app will launch.</p> <p>If you do not want to use a .scpt file and want to use a plain text file then you could try the trick of putting a <strong>run script</strong> command in the applescript.</p> <pre><code>on is_running(appName) tell application "System Events" to (name of processes) contains appName end is_running set safRunning to is_running("Safari") if safRunning then run script "tell application \"Safari\" open location \"http://google.com\" end tell" return "Running" else return "Not running" end if </code></pre> <p>The script in the <strong>run script</strong> is only compiled when needed. You will need to escape any characters like quotes as in my example.</p> <p>It will be easier if you write the script in a normal applescript document first and compiled it to check for errors.</p> <p>Then copy it to the plain text file.</p> <hr> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong> **</p> <p>The method I used above was from a old script I had used to solved this issue a while before I answered here. </p> <p>The answer works and is not trying to be elegant. ;-)</p> <p>I actually like <strong>user1804762</strong> method below. As it does work but feel the Answer is not clear enough so I will give an example on using it.</p> <pre><code>set appName to "Safari" if application appName is running then tell application id (id of application appName) open location "http://google.com" end tell return "Running" else return "Not running" end if </code></pre> <p>This script can be run from the command line with <strong>osascript</strong></p> <p>example:</p> <p><code>osascript /Users/USERNAME/Desktop/foo.scpt</code></p> <p>Notice that the script is saved as a compiled script. This will work ok and you can also save and use it as a plain text script.</p> <p>i.e.</p> <p><code>osascript /Users/USERNAME/Desktop/foo.applescript</code></p>

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