I'm cross posting this inquiry to both the ARD list and the
AppleScript because it involves questions about scripting ARD...
And I'm replying only to the ARD list.
When I "Send Unix command" and get back result text in a window, is
there any way to grab that text in AppleScript? I downloaded a
trial of Script Debugger which is very nice but so far isn't
showing me any way to access what I want.
When you create a send unix command task in applescript, you get a
somewhat complicated record back that includes one entry for each
machine on the original list, containing a machine ID, IP address,
success/failure status - and a string called "results" that's the
output of the command.
So if you do this - let's create a script that runs the "date"
command on some remote machine
tell application "Remote Desktop"
set m to computer "threeforty"
set newTask to make new send unix command task with properties
{name:"get the date", script:"date"}
set taskResults to execute newTask on m
end tell
you get back this - a record with a key called "computerStatuses",
which is a list of records for each computer you executed the command
on.
{|computerStatuses|:{{|id|:"71D2AD8E-C79F-47FD-8657-61FA472A8FDC",
address:"192.168.1.2", results:"“Wed May 3 12:55:38 EDT 2006”"}},
status:"Succeeded on all"}
So you could do
display dialog "The remote date is: " & |results| of item 1 of |
computerStatuses| of taskResults
A couple of notes. The text that you get back has actual double
quotes in it so you might want to remove them via something like
set remoteResult to text 2 through -2 of |results| of item 1 of |
computerStatuses| of taskResults
Also if the remote task produced no output, the string you get back
is "Succeeded" - without the double quotes.
Also also I believe you can only get back the last line of the output
this way even if multiple lines were produced but for many simple
commands this will be fine.
