I need to pass an argument through applescript to a unix program, basically I want to pass options to the applescript and then pass those options on to a unix program so i’ll have to open terminal and then execute it with the options specified to the applescript. I know how I can do it with prompting in the script but no idea how to do arguments on the command line.
applescript FILE
to a unix command FILE
how would I go about doing this?
Rather than passing the argument to terminal, wouldn’t you rather use ‘do shell script’? I suppose the UNIX command accepts a path to the target file as a parameter? Let’s say the unix command is ‘cat’–in that case, your AppleScript statement would look like this:
do shell script "cat -n " & “/tmp/theFile”
Of course, substitute the correct command, command line flags (switches, options), and path to your file. If you can be more specific about what you want to do, we can provide a more detailed response.