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Loop until specified application quits

Published in: AppleScript

This example is the loop that waits until "mi.app" is quitted.

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repeat
	try
		do shell script "ps -auxw | grep '[ m]i\.app'"
	on error
		exit repeat
	end try
	delay 1
end repeat

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