New Text File Action Does Not Output Correctly (Corrupts)

Question

I posted this in here by accident. I reposted it in the 10.5 Automator forum...
I have a simple automator script that uses "Get Specified Text" that contains some arbitrary shell script text, and I pass that to "New Text File" which has the location selected from a variable called "Temporary path" of value "/tmp". The output of 'New Text File" will not contain the text I specified. Here are steps to recreate:
New automator script
Get specified text action with the following text:
#!/bin/sh
cd "`dirname \"$0\"`"
if [ true ]; then
echo 1
fi
New variable called "Temporary path" with the value "/tmp"
New text file action
--- Save as: test.txt
--- Where: "Temporary path" (drag Temporary path to the drop down box)
--- Replace existing file: checked
I run the script. New text file result shows "/private/tmp/test.txt". Then from the "Terminal" I try to view it ("cat /tmp/test.txt") and the contents are:
if [ true ]; then\"`"
fi echo 1
So the specified text was corrupted. If I create the new file in Desktop or Documents (tried those) it works correctly. What is so special about /tmp? Is there a reason why this shouldn't work?
Regards,
John
Message was edited by: techiejohn

Answer 1

Alas, my example does work... In hopes of narrowing the problem I tried to narrow the text.
Anyway below is the full "script" that I'm trying to write to the file that does not work, although if you copy it from here directly, it does work. So to reproduce, I can copy it from here to TextWrangler (that will fix the extra blank lines) then from TextWranger to Automator and the issues remains. The result of "Get specified text" looks correct, but the output still is not.
<pre>
#!/bin/bash
cd "`dirname \"$0\"`"
clear
\# display output from a previous run
if \[ -e "$0".txt \]; then
cat "$0".txt
/bin/echo -n "Run again? "
read run
if \[ "$run" = "n" -o "$run" = "N" -o "$run" = "no" -o "$run" = "No" -o "$run" = "NO" \]; then
run=""
else
run="Yes"
fi
else
run="Yes"
fi
if \[ "$run" \]; then
date
echo "Running unison for $USER..."
if \[ -e "/Users/$USER" -a -e "/Volumes/$USER" \]; then
/opt/local/bin/unison \
"/Users/$USER" "/Volumes/$USER" \
-auto \
-rsrc false \
-terse \
-logfile /dev/null \
-ignore "Name .DS_Store" \
-ignore "Name .Spotlight*" \
-path "Desktop" \
-path "Documents" \
-path "Downloads" \
"$@"
exit=$?
case "$exit" in
0) echo "Successful synchronization; everything is up-to-date now.";;
1) echo "Some files were skipped, but all file transfers were successful.";;
2) echo "Non-fatal failures occurred during file transfer.";;
3) echo "A fatal error occurred, or the execution was interrupted.";;
esac
else
echo "/Users/$USER or /Volumes/$USER does not exist."
exit=255
fi
else
exit=0
fi
\# wait for error acknowledgement
if \[ "$TERM" -a "$TERM" != "dumb" -a "$exit" -gt 0 \]; then
/bin/echo -n "Error #$exit; press enter or return to continue: "
read
fi
\# close the terminal window
termpid=`/opt/local/bin/pstree -p $PPID | grep Terminal.app | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
if \[ "$termpid" \]; then
kill "$termpid"
fi
exit $exit
</pre>