Quit For Mac

Quit is a script that allows one to simply type the following command to quit an application politely (so that it can save and exit properly):

   quit AppName

There is no easy way to quit an application politely from the command line included in Mac OS X. There are options that are easy to use, but not nice to applications, and an option that is nice to applications, but not easy to use.

Quit script takes one or more application names as arguments, and uses osascript to tell each one to quit.

The arguments used by Quit are not case sensitive.

Unlike kill and killall, this allows applications to save files and perform any necessary operations before exiting. This script is not case sensitive.

NOTE: Application names are NOT process names! The application name is the name that Script Editor uses. Often the process name and the application name are identical, but not always.