RE: making applescript wait until shell script finishes
RE: making applescript wait until shell script finishes
- Subject: RE: making applescript wait until shell script finishes
- From: "Francois Houle" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:08:48 -0500
- Thread-topic: making applescript wait until shell script finishes
I'm wondering about the oposite... How would I make it so that a script
doesn't wait for the results of a "do shell script" statement... and
also how can I kill a process launched by the do shell script (I
basically want it to output to a text file for lets say 30 seconds and
the cut it off. Should I simply send a killall shell script command to
shut the process off ?
Thanks
Frank
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om] On Behalf Of Dave Lyons
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 7:55 PM
To: Ben Fenstermaker; AS users list
Subject: Re: making applescript wait until shell script finishes
By the way...a quick test shows that:
do shell script "sleep 5"
beep
...blocks until the shell command completes, whereas telling Terminal do
"do script" does not wait:
tell application "Terminal"
do script "sleep 5"
beep
end tell
(In this case, using "mount volume" does sound better.)
Cheers,
--Dave
On Oct 28, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Ben Fenstermaker wrote:
> I have answered my own question... Simply used the mount volume
> command in applescript instead of a do shell script statement.
>
>
> On 10/28/05 2:13 PM, "Ben Fenstermaker" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Probably a simple question but I am rather new to applescript.
>> Here is bit
>> of the script that I am having trouble with:
>> -snip-
>> Tell application "Terminal"
>> do script "mkdir /Volumes/temp/ & mount_afp -i afp:/at/resfs01/
>> RESEARCH/ /Volumes/temp"
>> tell application "Finder"
>> display dialog "Choose your local home folder" buttons {"Ok"}
>> -snip-
>>
>> The problem is that I need the script to wait until the user puts in
>> a username and password for the mount_afp command in the terminal
>> window before continuing on with the rest of the script. I am pretty
>> sure this is doable but for the life of me I cant find how to do it.
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