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I am using max msp to run shell commands, I have been prototyping code in applescript and need them to run in osascript for example - 

tell application "Google Chrome" to close tab 1 of window 1

converts to 

osascript -e 'tell application \"Google Chrome\" to close tab 1 of window 1'

I have converted around 10 commands, but am stuck on the very last one which is

tell application "Google Chrome" to activate
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Google Chrome"
        do shell script "/usr/local/bin/cliclick/ c:360,550"
    end tell
end tell

which I think goes to 

osascript -e 'tell application \"Google Chrome\" to activate' -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to tell process \"Google Chrome\" to do shell script \"/usr/local/bin/cliclick c:360, 550\"'

cliclick lets you use the mouse through shell. http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/cliclick/. The c is the command identifier for clicking, so at x360 y550

is my syntax correct? it works when I dont include the c identifier.

Thanks

Rampartisan
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I tried this and it gave me this error message:

99:151: execution error: System Events got an error: Invalid argument “360,” to command “c”: Expected two coordinates, separated by a comma. Example: “c:123,456” (1)

Solution: you have an extra space before the number 550 (c:360, 550) and the second value gets lost. Remove the space character and it should work (c:360,550)…

Here is a version where I also changed the quoting:

osascript -e "tell application \"Safari\" to activate" -e "tell application \"System Events\" to tell process \"Safari\" to do shell script \"/usr/local/bin/cliclick c:360,550\""
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    thanks for your answer, it actually led me on the the real problem which is max msp puts a white space afer a comma. Didnt think this was a problem, but you showed it was! a backslash sorts this out. I also needed the orignal quoting because of max messing with the formatting osascript -e 'tell application \"Google Chrome\" to activate' -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to tell process \"Google Chrome\" to do shell script \"/usr/local/bin/cliclick c:360\,550\"' – Rampartisan Apr 02 '13 at 18:50