Shellscript in Applescript

Question

I made a shell script that works until one point where the Escape key needs to be pressed. Does anybody know how to make applescript make a keystroke while inside of the shell script???

Answer 1

theAnimator: I've followed you through several threads apparently trying to solve a simple problem, but it seems you are getting lots of partial answers and you are now trying to piece them together, but the real solution is much simpler. Instead of trying to turn that interactive process (where you need to type the escape character) into a non-interactive one, the interactive process that you're trying to adopt (perhaps with expect) was dubious advice. That problem could have been solved directly with a simpler non-interactive solution that doesn't rely on the keyboard.
For example, if you can put the lines you want to insert into a file, "finsert", and you want to insert those lines between lines 12 and 13 of file fdata, the following Unix shell script would do that:
# make backup
cp fdata fdata.bak
# copy first 12 lines
head -n 12 fdata.bak > fdata
# copy insert text
cat finsert >> fdata
# copy remainder
tail -n +13 fdata.bak >> fdata
Note the distinction between > and >> in the script.