shell script result in a alert box, how to?

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#1

If I run the following script from inside Script Editor

do shell script "tmutil status"

I get a result in the result window. It reads:

[format]}"
end tell
Result:
“Backup session status:
{
ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
Percent = 1;
Running = 0;
}”[/format]

The output of course depends on what TM is doing at the moment.

Can I have the script report this in a window?

Thanks.

#2

This is a script I wrote a few years ago to read the output as a dictionary and to write the information “BackupPhase”, “Running”, “Stopping” and “Percent” into a txt file. The handler isBackupRunning() returns true if a backup is currently running

It might be a starting point


use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use framework "Foundation"
use scripting additions

property |⌘| : a reference to current application


on isBackupRunning()
	global tmStatus
	set text item delimiters to {""}
	set tmutilStatus to |⌘|'s NSString's stringWithString:(paragraphs 2 thru -1 of (do shell script "tmutil status") as text)
	set plistData to tmutilStatus's dataUsingEncoding:(|⌘|'s NSUTF8StringEncoding)
	set {tmStatus, tmError} to |⌘|'s NSPropertyListSerialization's propertyListWithData:plistData options:0 format:(|⌘|'s NSPropertyListOpenStepFormat) |error|:(reference)
	set phase to "n/a"
	set isStopping to "n/a"
	set isRunning to "n/a"
	set percent to "n/a"
	
	set bPh to tmStatus's objectForKey:"BackupPhase"
	if bPh is not missing value then set phase to bPh as text
	set isR to tmStatus's objectForKey:"Running"
	if isR is not missing value then set isRunning to isR as text
	set isS to tmStatus's objectForKey:"Stopping"
	if isS is not missing value then set isStopping to isS as text
	set perc to tmStatus's objectForKey:"Percent"
	if perc is not missing value then set percent to perc as text
	writeToDisk(phase, isRunning, isStopping, percent)
	return tmError is missing value and (tmStatus as record)'s |running|() = "1"
end isBackupRunning

isBackupRunning()

on writeToDisk(phase, isR, isS, percent)
	set theFile to (path to desktop as text) & "tmstatus.txt"
	try
		set fileDescriptor to open for access theFile with write permission
		set theLine to "Phase: " & phase & " - isRunning: " & isR & " - isStopping: " & isS & " - Percent: " & percent & return
		write theLine to fileDescriptor as «class utf8» starting at eof
		close access fileDescriptor
		return true
	on error e
		e
		try
			close access theFile
		end try
		return false
	end try
end writeToDisk
#3 

display notification (get do shell script "tmutil status") with title "BACKUP STATUS REPORT"