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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: Theron Blount <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:49:09 -0800
Perhaps you could use "expect?"

Theron

On Mar 17, 2004, at 10:00 PM, email@hidden wrote:

Message: 2
From: John Fowler <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: do shell script and prompts
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:53:00 -0600
To: email@hidden

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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