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Re: do shell script and the results

On 15-May-08, at 3:09 PM, Allan Marcus wrote:

Is there a way to display the result of a do shell script in real time, rather than after the script is complete?

You can tell Terminal to run a command with "do script", instead of using "do shell script" yourself, and the command will run in a new Terminal window (and, of course, all the output will be over there and not returned to Applescript, but this is sometimes an acceptable tradeoff.)

e.g. - let's run "top -w" in a window, which runs forever and would never return if you used "do shell script" -


tell application "Terminal"
	-- get Terminal to run a command in a new window.
	-- note that you use "do script" here, not "do shell script"
	do script "top -w"
end tell
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