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Created March 4, 2014 22:21
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Quit and relaunch an application in AppleScript, e.g., Google Chrome—to finish installing updates.
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quit-and-relaunch.applescript
set appName to "Google Chrome"
tell application appName to quit
repeat
tell application "System Events"
if appName is not in (name of application processes) then exit repeat
end tell
do shell script "sleep 0.5"
end repeat
tell application appName to launch
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