Applescript to find application path from partial app name?
The following example AppleScript code assumes you only have one application running that contains &quot;Acrobat&quot; in its name, otherwise you'll need to process the list returned from System Events in a repeat loop.
tell application &quot;System Events&quot; to ¬
    set appAcrobatList to the ¬
        name of every application process ¬
        whose background only is false ¬
        and name contains &quot;Acrobat&quot;

if appAcrobatList is not {} then ¬
    return POSIX path of ¬
        (path to application ¬
            (first item of appAcrobatList))