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kenorb
kenorb

Reputation: 166833

How to pass multiple arguments to osascript?

I've got the following shell script which uses osascript command:

#!/usr/bin/osascript
on run argv
  tell application "Terminal"
    activate
    do script "echo " & quoted form of (item 1 of argv) & " " & quoted form of (item 2 of argv)
  end tell
end run

However when I run, the code is only limited to print 2 first arguments.

E.g. when running ./test.sh foo bar buzz ..., I expect all the arguments to be displayed.

How I can convert the above code to support multiple unlimited number of arguments? And it won't break when I specify none?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 5996

Answers (2)

user3439894
user3439894

Reputation: 7555

By default, AppleScript's text item delimiters is {} and unless is was set to other then the default elsewhere in the script before this and not reset as one should directly after the manipulation, and or you just are not using AppleScripts's text item delimiters, then here is a way to do it without having to explicitly use code like e.g. set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, space} and set text item delimiters to TID:

#!/usr/bin/osascript

on run argv

    set argList to {}
    repeat with arg in argv
        set end of argList to quoted form of arg & space
    end repeat

    tell application "Terminal"
        activate
        do script "echo " & argList as string
    end tell

end run

Upvotes: 5

vadian
vadian

Reputation: 285250

You have to add a repeat loop to map the argument list to their quoted form and then join the list to a space separated string with text item delimiters

#!/usr/bin/osascript
on run argv
    set argList to {}
    repeat with arg in argv
        set end of argList to quoted form of arg
    end repeat
    set {TID, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, space}
    set argList to argList as text
    set text item delimiters to TID

    tell application "Terminal"
        activate
        do script "echo " & argList
    end tell
end run

Upvotes: 3

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