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: LuKreme <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:31:08 -0700
On 27-Feb-2009, at 18:32, Axel Luttgens wrote:
Could you give us a full (yet simplified) example of the kind of
workflow you are considering?
Sure, without getting into too many specifics.
Basically I have a shells script that grabs some piece of transient
data, perhaps like I said from a log file, or a grep | tail -1 of a
rapidly changing file.
It then uses this line in some way, perhaps sending it in an email or
writing it to a file or extracting the pid ... whatever.
Now, I want to sent the value of the variable to an application like
BBEdit
tell application "BBEdit"
replace (mySearch as string) using ("$VAR1" as string) options
{search mode:literal, starting at top:true} searching in text 1 of
text window 1
end tell
(wrap that all in an osascript -e)
you know what, I can adapt my old rand signature applescript to this
process and show it in a complete script:
#!/bin/sh
# Is the current user running Mail?
MAIL=`ps -U"$USER" -co command | grep Mail`
#Get a random 'fortune' for signature
RAND=`/opt/local/bin/fortune /path/to/mysigs`
#write the fortune to .signature for slrn, Postbox, and Thunderbird's
use
echo $RAND > $HOME/.signature
if [ $MAIL ]; then
osascript -e "set myVAR1 to (do shell script \"cat $HOME/.signature
\") as text" \
-e "tell application \"Mail\" to set content of signature \"Fortune
\" to \"-- \" & return & myVAR1"
It's a bit silly in this case as it is trivial to get another
'fortune' and there is no reason for the Fortune signature and
the .signature to be synced, but there you have it.
Actually, it's a good example because the fortune file contains all
sorts of characters. For example, in my method I can already see that
the line wrapping gets munged.
"...when you're no longer searching for beauty or love, just some
kind of life with the edges taken off. When you can't even
define what it is that you're frightened of..."
becomes:
"..when you're no longer searching for beauty or love, just some kind
of life with the edges taken off. When you can't even define what it
is that you're frightened of..."
This does not happen if I set the content of the signature this way
"tell application \"Mail\" to set content of signature \"Fortune\" to
\"-- \" & return & (do shell script \"/opt/local/bin/fortune $HOME/
mysigs\")"
--
"Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?" "Why are you wearing that
stupid man suit?"
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