Hi, I have a command (copied below) which grabs the paths of the selected items in the Finder, and inserts them into a textmate doc.
I'd like to do some post-processing of the result (replace e.g. replace "/Users/.*/" with "~", and strip trailing return character.
How does one take the resulting string from a script, and process it, say, in php or bash. or should I just work on post-processing theList in applescript?
Thanks!
#!/usr/bin/env bash osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" set theFiles to selection set theList to "" repeat with f in theFiles set theList to theList & """ & POSIX path of (f as alias) & ""," end repeat return theList end tell'
You're running a bash script, and osascript returns the list, so you can attribute the script return value to a variable and use it however you want. I did this simple test:
#!/usr/bin/env bash sleep 5 result=$(/usr/bin/osascript -e etc etc etc...) echo $result
Saved this script, then executed it and quickly cmd tabbed to a finder window and cmd a. The script printed the list of selected files to the terminal as expected.
I'm not a PHP developer but Google says you can use shell_exec() to run your osascript and save its return to a variable.
Hope that helps.
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Tim Bates timothy.c.bates@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I have a command (copied below) which grabs the paths of the selected items in the Finder, and inserts them into a textmate doc.
I'd like to do some post-processing of the result (replace e.g. replace "/Users/.*/" with "~", and strip trailing return character.
How does one take the resulting string from a script, and process it, say, in php or bash. or should I just work on post-processing theList in applescript?
Thanks!
#!/usr/bin/env bash osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" set theFiles to selection set theList to "" repeat with f in theFiles set theList to theList & """ & POSIX path of (f as alias) & ""," end repeat return theList end tell'
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Thank you for your effort and (successful) help! That was the key: What is returned from the AppleScript is trappable like that!
Best, tim
On 24 Mar 2018, at 5:36 pm, dipnlik dipnlik@gmail.com wrote:
You're running a bash script, and osascript returns the list, so you can attribute the script return value to a variable and use it however you want. I did this simple test:
#!/usr/bin/env bash sleep 5 result=$(/usr/bin/osascript -e etc etc etc...) echo $result
Saved this script, then executed it and quickly cmd tabbed to a finder window and cmd a. The script printed the list of selected files to the terminal as expected.
I'm not a PHP developer but Google says you can use shell_exec() to run your osascript and save its return to a variable.
Hope that helps.
-- :: dip
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Tim Bates timothy.c.bates@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, I have a command (copied below) which grabs the paths of the selected items in the Finder, and inserts them into a textmate doc.
I'd like to do some post-processing of the result (replace e.g. replace "/Users/.*/" with "~", and strip trailing return character.
How does one take the resulting string from a script, and process it, say, in php or bash. or should I just work on post-processing theList in applescript?
Thanks!
#!/usr/bin/env bash osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" set theFiles to selection set theList to "" repeat with f in theFiles set theList to theList & """ & POSIX path of (f as alias) & ""," end repeat return theList end tell'
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