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Re: making applescript wait until shell script finishes
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Re: making applescript wait until shell script finishes


  • Subject: Re: making applescript wait until shell script finishes
  • From: Bernardo Hoehl <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:50:16 -0200

I think you should read this:

http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html

Example:

do shell script "ls ~/ > ~/Desktop/log.txt 2>&1 &"

Bernardo Höhl
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil


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On 04 Nov, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Francois Houle wrote:

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


-----Original Message-----
From: applescript-users-bounces+francois.houle=email@hidden
[mailto:applescript-users-bounces+francois.houle=email@hidden.c
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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