Re: Another shell script query
Re: Another shell script query
- Subject: Re: Another shell script query
- From: Simon Kornblith <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 20:43:36 -0400
On 6/5/02 7:41 PM, "garbanzito" <email@hidden> wrote:
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at 2002 06 05, 22:12 +0100, they whom i call Charles Arthur,
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UKClimbing Editor wrote:
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> Why doesn't this work?
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> do shell script "curl --help"
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> (You can replace "curl" with most Unix things).
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> It works in the Terminal but from AS gives "execution error". I'm
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> suspecting that the output is not stdout but stderr, though I'm at a loss
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> as to how to deal with that.
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that was a good guess, but it's actually that "curl --help"
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for some reason has an exit status of 2, which "do shell
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script" reasonably interprets as an error.
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you'll see this in Terminal if you
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curl --help
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printf "$status\n"
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i don't know offhand, but there's probably a way to subvert
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the exit status and make AppleScript happy. however it
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does seem like a bug in curl.
Try the following:
try
do shell script "curl --help"
on error theError -- theError contains the output from curl
display dialog theError
end try
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