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: René v Amerongen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:48:27 +0100
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Hi,
On 27 feb 2009, at 21:34, Matthew Smith wrote:
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 $VAR1\")"
which while it works, is fugly to behold, or is there a better
option I'm
missing?
Try:
osascript -e 'display dialog system attribute "VAR1"'
For some reason I can't use display dialog. I get "no user interaction
allowed".
Maybe you did mis it. I wrote before..
About the display dialog part, I always did get "0:79: execution
error: No user interaction allowed. (-1713)" back.
So I do use with your part added
osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' -e "activate" -e "display
dialog \"$(echo "$VAR1" | sed -e 's/"/\\"/g')\"" -e 'end tell'
Try to use tell application "Finder". HTH
--
Matthew Smith
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