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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: LuKreme <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:07:44 -0700

On 27-Feb-2009, at 14:15, Mark J. Reed wrote:
$ export HELLO="World"
$ HELLO="There" osascript -e 'system attribute "HELLO"' 2>/dev/null
There
$ echo "$HELLO"
World

That's pretty nifty, actually.

But passing the value as an argument, accessible via the run handler's
parameter list, seems to be the cleanest solution.  Thanks, Skeeve.

Agreed. That's the best solution offered so far.

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