Re: What is the limit on osascript command ?
Re: What is the limit on osascript command ?
- Subject: Re: What is the limit on osascript command ?
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:21:48 -0400
Huh? The contents of a here document are not processed as commands.
It's essentially a giant double-quoted string. Now if you have `...`
or $(...) In there, sure, that's a shell command.. You can quote the
terminator to get it to not do interpolation, but presumably doing
interpolation is the whole point in this case...
On 4/9/08, Doug McNutt <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 14:36 +0100 4/9/08, Paul Taylor wrote:
> >It didnt work, in fact even with a shorter script that used to work it
> failed. Im generating the script from within a java program, maybe there is
> some problem with quoting characters it is very difficult to tell because
> Applescript appears very sensitive to whitespace never mind control chars.
> Im going to try writing the script to a file and then using osascript on the
> file, that should at least remove the quoting of shell characters problem.
> Sound like a good idea ?
>
> Yes. And your temporary file may never actually get written to disk because
> of caching.
>
> I donno about bash but tcsh has a problem with osascripts that use the
> <<EOSCRIPT or "HERE" structure.
>
> If your AppleScript has loops that use reserved words that also exist in the
> UNIX shell they can get misinterpreted as the HERE document is processed.
> That can result in a failure of a loop in the shell script. IF is
> particularly sensitive causing the shell to error when it doesn't find an
> associated END.
>
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