Re: Calling shell script, returning results.

Subject: Re: Calling shell script, returning results.
From: Chris Page <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:06:50 -0800

On Dec 18, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Michele (Mike) Hjorleifsson wrote:

If you call a shell script from applescript is there a way to capture the resultant output from the shell script so you could present it nicely in the GUI for the user ?

As Steve Hayman mentioned, the result of the ‘do shell script’ command contains whatever is written to standard out.

In order to help me understand whether the documentation needs improvement, I'd like to ask whether you looked at the Standard Additions terminology dictionary entry for ‘do shell script’ and whether you were unable to find your answer there:

do shell script v : Execute a shell script or command using the ‘sh’ shell

do shell script text : the command or shell script to execute. Examples are ‘ls’ or ‘/bin/ps -auxwww’

[as type class] : the desired type of result; default is text (UTF-8)

[administrator privileges boolean] : execute the command as the administrator

[user name text] : use this administrator account to avoid a password dialog (If this parameter is specified, the “password” parameter must also be specified.)

[password text] : use this administrator password to avoid a password dialog

[altering line endings boolean] : change all line endings to Mac-style and trim a trailing one (default true)

→ text : the command output

For answers to commonly asked questions about do shell script, see Technical Note TN2065.

Chris Page

The other, other AppleScript Chris

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