Great tip from S. Mills

[Ray_Barber]

Steve Mills offered a great tip on the Applescript-Users Mailing list.

In addition to using the Log window in Script Editor or Script Debugger, you can spit messages to Console:

do shell script “echo ‘bob’ > /dev/console”

This shows up in console.log, viewable in 10.3’s Console.app.

A follow up…

I’ll also mention that if you don’t want to clog up console.log with your own debugging strings, instead write them out to your own .log file. Open it in Console and it will update as necessary:

do shell script “echo ‘test’ >> ~/Desktop/my.log”

You can even spit out script variables:

set x to “I’m a variable”
do shell script “echo " & (quoted form of x) & " >> ~/Desktop/my.log”

Steve Mills

By creating the “my.log” file you will have a Console.app viewable list of the Events Log that will be saved for future reference. You can also open the “my.log” file in a Text Editor. Very handy, thanks Steve ;¬)