Passing password in an AS script to a shell command

Hi,
I'm posting here based on this discution:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=345269
In my case I want to pass the password to the rsync command. The command I use is on the format:
rsync -vr --size-only ~/Sites/ usernameonserver@serveuraddress:/path/to/the/directory
Normally rsync will ask for a password. How the password and username are passed from AS to terminal (or what is equivalent to)?
it is important to mention that the user and password are not local, but on the remote server.
Thanks

Hi Steve,
As you've probably gathered, from this post and the other thread you linked to, AppleScript doesn't really offer a straightforward way to run command line tools that require user interaction.
The suggestions NovaScotian offered may work for your rsync dilemma, but I thought I'd mention another option that you might want to investigate for this or other similar problems. There is a command line tool called "expect" that is specifically tailored for automating the running and interaction with other commands that require user responses. See the man page for "expect" for specifics.
Basically "expect" allows you to write a script that controls what other process it launches, what prompts to wait for and what values to feed to the prompts. These expect scripts can be as complex as you need to make them and they can deal with multiple secondary processes if needed. The expect script can sort of act as a "middle-man" between AppleScript and the actual command line tool(s) you want to run. AppleScript runs an expect script, the expect script runs the command you really want to execute and deals with any interactive prompts and finally returns any results back to the AppleScript.
So, getting back to your rsync problem... you could write your AppleScript to call an "expect" script passing it the rsync password. And you would write your expect script to accept the password as one of it's command line parameters. The expect script would then launch rsync, wait for the password prompt and then feed rsync the password you gave it from AppleScript. The expect script would finally return any output or error messages from rsync back to AppleScript.
This may be overkill for your particular problem since rsync apparently gives you other mechanisms for dealing with the password. But in some situations it may be the best or only solution for running interactive command line tools from AppleScript.
Steve

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