Re: osascript shell commands using AppleScript
Re: osascript shell commands using AppleScript
- Subject: Re: osascript shell commands using AppleScript
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:27:33 -0400
No idea why I said "same as an applet" there. Just ignore that part. :)
On 6/24/08, Mark J. Reed <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden> wrote:
>> In Leopard, we are told that AppleScript allows use of "#" as an
>> alternative
>> to "--" as a comment-to-end-of-line token, and that as a result shell
>> commands can be written using straight AppleScript by including the
>> comment
>> #!usr/bin/osascript at the beginning and setting the file's execute bit.
>>
>> Sure enough, it works.
>>
>> But how do I capture shell variables like $1 and $2 when doing this? I'm
>> thinking of using AppleScript this way in a PackageMaker 3 shell script.
>
> The shell is not involved in this process; just osascript and
> AppleScript. $1 etc are the syntax for getting at the command line
> arguments within a shell script. If you're asking how you access
> command line arguments within an AppleScript invoked this way, it's
> the same as if it were an applet: supply an on run handler.
>
> $ cat >hello.as <<EOF
> #!/usr/bin/osascript
> on run(args)
> return "Hello, " & first item of args as string & "!"
> end
> EOF
> $ chmod 0755 hello.as
> $ ./hello.as world
> Hello, world!
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> Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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