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``