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Re: using a shell variable in an osascript line?
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Re: using a shell variable in an osascript line?


  • Subject: Re: using a shell variable in an osascript line?
  • From: René v Amerongen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:41:18 +0100

To quick on the send button after wrong copy paste

On 27 feb 2009, at 16:35, René v Amerongen wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for that part. I was also looking for this before.

About the display dialog part, I always did get "0:79: execution error: No user interaction allowed. (-1713)" back.

So I do use with your part added

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' -e "activate" -e "display dialog \"$(echo "$VAR1" | sed -e 's/"/\\"/g')\"" -e 'end tell'



If I may insert another question here?

How do I get the result 'button returned:OK' back or the Cancelled value?

$VAR2= osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' -e "activate" -e "display dialog \"$(echo "$VAR1" | sed -e 's/"/\\"/g')\"" -e 'end tell'
doen't work.

The previous line should be
VAR2= osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' -e "activate" -e "set myVariable to text returned of (display dialog \"$(echo "$VAR1" | sed - e 's/"/\\"/g')\")" -e 'end tell'


I Get "53:66: execution error: Can’t get text returned of {button returned:"OK"}. (-1728)"


On 27 feb 2009, at 16:08, Mark J. Reed wrote:

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Mark J. Reed <email@hidden> wrote:
Assuming your shell is bash, this will work:

osascript -e "display dialog \"$(printf %q "$VAR1")\""

I take that back. That won't work, because printf %q backslash- escapes
characters other than double quotes (including apostrophes and
spaces), causing Applescript to reject the string as invalid.


So I guess we're back to escaping any quotes manually:

osascript -e "display dialog \"$(echo "$VAR1" | sed -e 's/"/\\"/g') \""

Which I verified with this:

VAR1='Fred'\''s "boo" scared me!'






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