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Re: Another Applescript noob


  • Subject: Re: Another Applescript noob
  • From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 21:18:39 +0200

On May 26, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

You can run the script inside Terminal with 'tell application "Terminal" to do script "...."', instead of 'do shell script', and then the script can interact with the user as needed.

Or if the script just expects certain things on its input but doesn't need a terminal, you can prompt for them with 'display dialog' and then use "echo" or <<< as part of the shell command to feed the input to it.

Or you can use display dialog's output in line, like in:

-- tested
do shell script "ls " & (text returned of (display dialog "Enter directory to list:" default answer "/"))


Emmanuel
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