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Re: Applescript in the terminal (fwd)
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Re: Applescript in the terminal (fwd)


  • Subject: Re: Applescript in the terminal (fwd)
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:53:43 -0600

At 10:55 -0400 4/19/13, <email@hidden> wrote, in part:
>option+command+key
>
>Also how does one do such keys as the arrow and other related keys and f1 - f12 keys etc.?  Which brings me to the question of a source on the web where applescript keystroke representations might be listed, and applescript commands in general?

Shells understand the convention about numeric quantities starting with a 0 (zero) are octal or hexadecimal if it's 0X.  I donno if it will work out but it's worth a try to figure the actual character in hex.  The international UTF selector might help.

>I lied, I just thought of one more question.  Can one compile an applescript from within terminal from a simple text file?

osascript will accept a path to a file of Applescript commands as an argument.

I find it useful to use the << convention to put lines of code in line as a "Here" document

osascript << END
Multiline Applescript commands as they would appear in the script editor
END
# The word "END" can be pretty much any combination of  case sensitive ASCII characters.

You can also pipe text to osascript

cat ApplescriptTextFile | osascript

What you can't do is to compile a script and save the compiled version as an executable binary.

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       Fe++
    //      \
Fe++          Fe++
  |           ||
Fe++          Fe++
   \\        /
       Fe++
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