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Basic AppleScript w/Terminal Question
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<blockquote data-quote="Mark FX" data-source="post: 1382618" data-attributes="member: 211556"><p>You simply set the variable to the do shell script command like this.</p><p></p><p>[CODE]</p><p>set myApplications to do shell script "ls /Applications/"</p><p>[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>By default the returned myApplications variable result is a Applescript text type, as UTF-8 format, but you can use different types like this.</p><p></p><p>[CODE]</p><p>set theBinaryData to do shell script ("curl " & quoted form of theURLvariable) as data</p><p>[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>this will return binarydata.</p><p></p><p>If you dont have Administrator privileges, you can use a command like this.</p><p></p><p>[CODE]</p><p>set myApplications to do shell script "ls /Applications/" with administrator privileges ¬</p><p> user name "adminName" password "adminPassword"</p><p>[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>To find out all of the options for the do shell script command, look in the </p><p>StandardAdditions.sdef file, from the Window / Library menu.</p><p></p><p>Also you can script the Terminal Application like this.</p><p></p><p>[CODE]</p><p>tell application "Terminal"</p><p> activate</p><p> do script "ls /Applications/"</p><p>end tell</p><p>[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>In all of the above examples, you can also use echo and pipes in your shell commands.</p><p></p><p>Hope this is of some help</p><p></p><p>Regards Mark</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark FX, post: 1382618, member: 211556"] You simply set the variable to the do shell script command like this. [CODE] set myApplications to do shell script "ls /Applications/" [/CODE] By default the returned myApplications variable result is a Applescript text type, as UTF-8 format, but you can use different types like this. [CODE] set theBinaryData to do shell script ("curl " & quoted form of theURLvariable) as data [/CODE] this will return binarydata. If you dont have Administrator privileges, you can use a command like this. [CODE] set myApplications to do shell script "ls /Applications/" with administrator privileges ¬ user name "adminName" password "adminPassword" [/CODE] To find out all of the options for the do shell script command, look in the StandardAdditions.sdef file, from the Window / Library menu. Also you can script the Terminal Application like this. [CODE] tell application "Terminal" activate do script "ls /Applications/" end tell [/CODE] In all of the above examples, you can also use echo and pipes in your shell commands. Hope this is of some help Regards Mark [/QUOTE]
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