Can LC application receive a shell command with parameters?

[Bill Vlahos]

Mike,

I’m not sure. I want to have a running application and then periodically a different application on the computer might send my app a text string.

Scenario
A different application sends the command pathtomyapp 555-555-5555.

My application would have some way of receiving the command and then call a handler in my app to do a search..

I don’t see what my handler would look like in my app.

Thanks,
Bill Vlahos

On Sep 10, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Michael Doub <mikedoub at gmail.com> wrote:

> Look up $ in the dictionary.   You can get access to all of the environment variables for command line apps.   Is that what you are looking for?
> 
> -= Mike
> 
> 
> On Sep 10, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> I want to have a different program pass a parameter (in this case a callerID phone number) to my LC application via a shell command to do a search in and bring up a person’s record.
>> 
>> How can I receive it and handle it?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Bill Vlahos
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