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

#!/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());
}

Output:

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

TODO

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Link the post that shows how to do just the foreground apps

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