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: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:32:07 +0100
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Le 28 févr. 09 à 02:12, LuKreme a écrit :
On 27-Feb-2009, at 02:40, Axel Luttgens wrote:
If I understood you correctly, you have a single shell script with
multiple statements; among those statements, two are of interest
here:
[...]
VAR1=`tail -1 /var/log/mail.log`
[...]
osascript -e "display dialog $VAR1"
[...]
OK,not exactly. I have a variable that I use in the shell script
portion of my script and I then want to use it in an osascript
statement. Nothing quite works. I'm not talking about secifically a
display dialog, but perhaps, for example:
osascript -e 'tell application "myapp" to set "theSelection" to $VAR1'
I ended up doing this:
VAR1=`<whatever>`
echo $VAR1 > /tmp/osacript.tmp
osascript -e "set myVAR1 to (do shell script \"cat tmp/
osacript.tmp\") as text"
It's fugly. It works. Not done extensive testing though.
Hello again ;-)
I tried in my very first post to understand your context, and to
explain what could fail in my understanding of your context (hence,
for example, sentences such as "Assuming the string in VAR1 will never
contain double quotes,...").
But it seems I failed at circumventing that context, as it could well
be a mix of "do shell script" statements and, say, regular Applescript
statements.
Could you give us a full (yet simplified) example of the kind of
workflow you are considering?
TIA,
Axel _______________________________________________
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