Re: Another Applescript noob
Re: Another Applescript noob
- Subject: Re: Another Applescript noob
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:54:18 -0400
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Emmanuel LEVY
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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.
-- tested
do shell script "ls " & (text returned of (display dialog "Enter directory to list:" default answer "/"))
I got the impression the OP was talking about the command reading things from its input stream, so it'd be more like
do shell script "command arguments <<<" & (quoted form of (text returned of (display dialog "Enter data:")))
If you have to prompt for multiple data items then it's probably easier to do the display dialogs first and gather the results and then build the inputstring out of them.
Emmanuel
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