I'm trying to run an AppleScript script from the terminal, however I can't get it to print anything by calling
osascript myFile.scpt "/path/to/a/file"
I'm trying:
on run fileName
set unique_songs to paragraphs of (read POSIX file fileName)
repeat with nextLine in unique_songs
if length of nextLine is greater than 0 then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tab
set song to text item 2 of nextLine
set artist to text item 3 of nextLine
set album to text item 4 of nextLine
set output to ("Song: " & song & " - " & artist & " - " & album)
copy output to stdout
end if
end repeat
end run
The tab-delimited file is formatted something like this:
1282622675 Beneath the Balcony Iron & Wine The Sea & the Rhythm
1282622410 There Goes the Fear Doves (500) Days of Summer
1282622204 Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Tabs aren't really showing up well on this :(
Its is not very clear HOW you are trying to run it in Terminal.
But I will assume you have saved a applescript text file with the #!/usr/bin/osascript
shebang, and
chmod
'ed the file to be able to execute it.
Then called the file in Terminal, by just using the path to the file.
#!/usr/bin/osascript
#Here be the rest of your code ...
set output to ("Song: " & song & " - " & artist & " - " & album)
do shell script "echo " & quoted form of output
end tell
Update 2, in response to comments.
If I have a tab delimited text file with the content as:
track Skin Deep Beady Belle Closer
The tabs are set like : track****TAB****Skin Deep****TAB****Beady Belle****TAB****Closer
And the script file as:
on run fileName
set unique_songs to paragraphs of (read POSIX file fileName)
repeat with nextLine in unique_songs
if length of nextLine is greater than 0 then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tab
set song to text item 2 of nextLine
set artist to text item 3 of nextLine
set album to text item 4 of nextLine
set output to ("Song: " & song & " - " & artist & " - " & album)
do shell script "echo " & quoted form of output
end if
end repeat
end run
Then in Terminal run:
/usr/bin/osascript ~/Documents/testOsa2.scpt ~/Documents/testTab.txt
I get back:
*Song: Skin Deep - Beady Belle - Closer*