Launching applescript on terminal

Hi,
I would like to get all names in Address Book, So I tried this mixt of shelle script and AppleScript but it doesn't work :
osascript -e 'tell app "Address Book" to get the name of every person'
I'm getting an error, the Shell doesn't know "Address" ?
Can you help me ?
Many Thanks

Well, you haven't been keeping up with updates: your shell script works fine in 10.6.8, so maybe it's a 10.6.4 bug. try using 'application' instead of 'app' ('app' is a synonym which may be tripping up osascript). And double-check that you have everything quoted and spaced correctly - that's what normally trips up applescript/unix hybrids.

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