Re: osascript
Re: osascript
- Subject: Re: osascript
- From: Russ <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:07:32 -0400
- Organization: Eh? Whats that?
I believe you want something like:
#!/bin/sh
osascript -e \"tell application \\\"$1\\\" to activate\"
I was recently doing something similar from Perl, so this may be a bit off in Shell...
Russ
+++ Simon Forster [25/07/02 20:17 +0100]:
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Can anyone tell me why the shell script snippet:
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#!/bin/sh
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osascript -e 'tell application "'$1'" to activate'
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fails when passed a two word argument from the command line but works
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fine with a one word argument. I've tried echoing it back to the
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terminal and it all looks absolutely fine such as:
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osascript -e tell application "TextEdit" to activate
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and
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osascript -e tell application "Address Book" to activate
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are echoed back. If I try too run it, the first version works fine, the
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second doesn't - it fails with "syntax error: Expected string but found
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end of script. (-2741)".
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I'm sure I'm missing something simple.
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TIA
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Simon Forster
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