How to run JavaScript using jsc on OS X?

Question

I got this when I was trying to find some way to run my JavaScript programs through terminal. The run and load command mentioned can execute external J

Answer 1

Complements of this post, JSC lives at

/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/jsc

and is not in the shell PATH by default. You can fix that with

ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/jsc /usr/local/bin

jsc takes filenames as arguments. You could run a file named demo.js with

jsc demo.js

Note that you'll have to use debug() instead of the conventional console.log() in your script to see any output.