Shell command doesn't give feedback until done

[Brian Yennie]

Dar,

> I am aware of this, but didn't put it as well in my description.  I 
> think that is probably what Bill wants.
>
> Do you know how to do that in OS X?  I tried some variations on shell 
> punctuation, but that didn't work for me.

On OS X you should be able to just do:

get shell("mycommand > mylogfile.log")

Note that if "mycommand" is not installed in one of your binary paths, 
you'll need to give the path to it:

get shell("/Users/yennie/mycommand > mylogfile.log")

get shell("./mycommand > mylogfile.log")

etc.

HTH,

Brian