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Re: do shell script and prompts
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Re: do shell script and prompts

  • Subject: Re: do shell script and prompts
  • From: John Fowler <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:53:00 -0600
Steve Roy wrote:

Is there a way to handle prompts with 'do shell script'?

Prompt the user with an applescript dialog BEFORE invoking the shell script, put the resulting strings into a variable, and plug the variable into the shell script. Would that suffice?

John Fowler
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