using a shell variable in an osascript line?
using a shell variable in an osascript line?
- Subject: using a shell variable in an osascript line?
- From: LuKreme <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:43:58 -0700
I have a shell variable that I set to the output of a shell command
VAR1=`tail -1 /var/log/maillog`
and then I use VAR1 in the shell script for various things.
Then, at some point, I want to use that VAR1 in an osascript line, maybe something like:
osascript -e "display dialog $VAR1"
this doesn't work, however. the variable is transient in nature, so I can't simply redo the assignment as a do shell script.
Do I have to do
osascript -e "display dialog (do shell script \"echo $VAR1\")"
which while it works, is fugly to behold, or is there a better option I'm missing?
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