MacOS – Change background image through terminal on macOS Sierra

I have found this MacWorld post showing an AppleScript that you can execute to force that.

I have my desktop images set to change every 30 minutes in random order. Sometimes the desktop will display an image that displayed earlier in the day, and I wanted a way to 'advance' the image easily. The following AppleScript will cause the desktop image to change, in whatever order you have set, each time it is run:

And this is the script:

property theSwitch : 0
if theSwitch = 0 then
  tell application "System Events"
    tell current desktop
      set change interval to 1801.0
    end tell
  end tell
  set theSwitch to 1
else
  tell application "System Events"
    tell current desktop
      set change interval to 1800.0
    end tell
  end tell
  set theSwitch to 0
end if

Please check the link and the comments for more similar or complete alternatives.

Note: I have not tested this.

UPDATE I'm sorry to hear that it didn't work for you, yet it does for me on Snow Leopard with the following script:

tell application "System Events"
    tell current desktop
        set initInterval to get change interval -- get the currrent display interval
        set change interval to -1 -- force a change to happen right now
        set change interval to initInterval -- change it back to the original display interval
    end tell
end tell

WARNING

This assumes that you have

[X] "change picture ever x timesteps"

[X] Random Order

The above works for me. I ran it from the AppleScript Editor several times to make sure it was working and it indeed does change the Wallpaper.

Yes, this is possible with multiple methods. The easiest is simply right-clicking the script, opening the Get Info window and changing Open With to Python Launcher (x.x.x).