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Re: Sending commands to the terminal with applescript
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Re: Sending commands to the terminal with applescript

  • Subject: Re: Sending commands to the terminal with applescript
  • From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:03:54 -0600
at 4/19/01, 4:16 PM -0700, they whom i call Yah Right wrote:
I am trying to run a script that returns some information from the terminal. The dialog only displays part of the information. [...]

set dialogtext to AEShell ("/usr/bin/hostinfo")
display dialog dialogtext


display dialog has a limit of 255 characters (on Mac OS X
at least). there are lots of workarounds, not least of
which is to send stdout to a file:

AEShell ("/usr/bin/hostinfo >/Users/myname/foo.txt")

steve harley email@hidden

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 >Sending commands to the terminal with applescript (From: "Yah Right" <email@hidden>)

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