Applescript help: using commandline within applescript

Question

I'm trying to use applescript to take the results from a shell script and then put the results into the finder comments of the file. I believe I can use:
do shell script "/Users/wesM/Documents/Development/AVWSamples/test.sh"
to run the script, but I can't get it to work. test.sh is and executable file, and has the following line in it:
mdls -name kMDItemCodecs -name kMDItemPixelWidth -name kMDItemPixelHeight 19Never.mov | awk '{ print "Codec "$1}' > out
The script works fine. I want to take the results file (out), and then put it into the finder comments, I'm guessing with:
set comment
Is this possible? Can I get the filename to a shellscript from applescript?
Is there a better/easier way to do this?
Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I should have read the mdls command you used. i just copied and pasted it. you need to provide the correct path to the movie file. you didn't which is why the command failed. there is nothing to escape in that name so it's not an issue. and yes you can turn it into an application so that when you drop a file onto it it will automatically do this to all dropped files.
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
on open these_items
tell application "Finder"
repeat with this_item in these_items
set fpath to quoted form of POSIX path of this_item
set comment of this_item to do shell script "mdls -name kMDItemCodecs -name kMDItemPixelWidth -name kMDItemPixelHeight " & fpath
end repeat
end tell
end open</pre>
save this as an application. if you want the original shell command use that in the above instead.