Re: using a shell variable in an osascript line?
Re: using a shell variable in an osascript line?
- Subject: Re: using a shell variable in an osascript line?
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:34:56 +1100
- Thread-topic: using a shell variable in an osascript line?
on 27/02/2009 17:43 , LuKreme at email@hidden wrote:
> 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?
Try:
osascript -e 'display dialog system attribute "VAR1"'
For some reason I can't use display dialog. I get "no user interaction
allowed".
--
Matthew Smith
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