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#1

I’m writing (first time at this) an AS that launches terminal, logs into my hosting provider via SSH and runs a backup script. What I would like to do is once the script is done, have the AS watch for a message my backup script in the host returns and then write that to a log file.

How can I have AS look for a string or text in a terminal window?

Thanks,
Eric

#2

Ciao Eric,
in most cases you just have to define a variable that points to the result of a shell script operation:

set theResult to do shell script "ls"
-- instead of the "ls" command you can use any other Unix command

Good scripting
Farid