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How do I bring a processes window to the foreground on OS X?

I have a simple shell/python script that opens up other windows. I'd like to bring the terminal where the script is running to the foreground when the script has finished.

I know the process ID of my parent window. How can I bring a given window to the foreground? I imagine I have to find out the window name from the PID along the way.

Solution

  • Not sure if there's a proper way, but this works for me:

    osascript<<EOF
tell application "System Events"
    set processList to every process whose unix id is 350
    repeat with proc in processList
        set the frontmost of proc to true
    end repeat
end tell
EOF

    You can do it with osacript -e '...' too.

    Obviously change the 350 to the pid you want.