How to close a Mac OS X app from a shell script (or command line)

If you ever need to close a MacOS application (gracefully) from the Mac Terminal command line or from a shell script, I can confirm that this command works: osascript -e 'quit app "Safari"';

I use that command from a Mac/Unix shell script to close the Safari browser in an automation script I'm writing, and it works fine.

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