Sending AppleScript from Terminal to RR

[Kaveh Bazargan]

At 6:24 pm -0700 10/7/04, Dan Shafer wrote:
>Or if you're running the bash shell, it looks like this:
>
>$ exec osascript <<EOF
> >tell application "Safari"
> >activate
> >end tell [ctrl-d]
>
>I guess in the bash shell, ctrl d is the EOF. At any rate, typing \EOF
>produces no visible result.

Thanks to all for this great trick. Actually, this works in bash:

[~/ELS/els-xml]: osascript <<EOF
> tell application "Finder"
> activate
> end tell
> EOF
[~/ELS/els-xml]:

In my case, it is more convenient to send a file, so I just say

osascript myscript.applescript, but the above is a useful trick for other
things.
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