Passing a variable from Terminal back to applescript
I've got an applescript that runs a shell script. I want the value that is returned by my shell script to be passed back to applescript as a value.
So far I have
tell application "Finder"
set thisFilePath to {}
set thisFilePath to quoted form of (POSIX path of fileRef)
tell current application
set cmd to "exiftool -s -MWG:keywords" & space & thisFilePath
set theResult to do shell script cmd
end tell
The shell script returns
Keywords : (ITAP) INTENSIVE TRIAL ADVOCACY TRIAL PROGRAM., CSL, Event, none,
which I want to use as a variable in my applescript. Is there a simple command to do this?
Thanks.
pedro
theResult should already store this information.
try adding this line to the end of your script
"display dialog theResult"
You could also append "as text" if you have a larger script which somehow stored it as a list.
edit: or it might already have been solved in the last 5 min I took to write this
Message was edited by: taylor.henderson
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