Re: Saving "traceroute" results into a variable
Re: Saving "traceroute" results into a variable
- Subject: Re: Saving "traceroute" results into a variable
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:44:03 -0700
On Thursday, July 25, 2002, at 10:57 AM, email@hidden wrote:
Can anyone tell me how I might be able to write an AppleScript that
would execute a "traceroute" command, and pipe the output of that into
a variable? (It eventually needs to get written to a text file, so if
it's easier to go direct, please let me know)
"do shell script" is your friend. It will execute an arbitrary sh
command and return the resulting output as a string. Since you just
want the output in a file, it's probably easier to do that as part of
the shell command, so you'd have something like this:
do shell script "/usr/sbin/traceroute demand.stream.aol.com >
~/datadump"
You have to be explicit about the command path because "do shell script"
uses a very restricted PATH to find commands. If you didn't put the
shell redirect on the command, the output would appear as the result of
the command, so you could stick it in a variable like this:
set x to do shell script "your_command_here"
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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