Using Defined Variables in a Shell Script

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#1

Hi everyone and thanks for any help ahead of time. This may be a very simple question for an experienced scripter, but I am just learning.


set my_name to text returned of (display dialog "Enter Your CMC Username" with title "Add PoppaMain Printer" with icon caution default answer "" buttons {"Continue"} default button 1)
set my_pass to text returned of (display dialog "Enter Your CMC Password" with title "Add PoppaMain Printer" with icon caution default answer "" buttons {"Continue"} default button 1 with hidden answer)

do shell script "/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p PoppaMain -E -v smb://my_name:my_pass@mckenna/ls2-mach/poppa-main -P /Library/Printers/PPDS/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/CanonIR.ppd -D \"Poppa-Main\""

All I need is to have the Applescript use the variables my_name and my_pass in the shell script, specifically where they are now in plain text. Please tell me how I can insert these variables into the the plain text command and then have it executed as such.

#2

Carter,

First of all welcome.

Well what you are looking for is not shell only but you want to concatenate strings. Well that easy:

set a to " World!"
set theString to "Hello " & a
return theString

so you command could be this:


do shell script "/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p PoppaMain -E -v smb://" & my_name & ":" & my_pass & "@mckenna/ls2-mach/poppa-main -P /Library/Printers/PPDS/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/CanonIR.ppd -D \"Poppa-Main\""
#3

Thanks DJ, that worked great. I knew it would be a quick fix, and I am happy to have found this great site.