I have a file with a list of URL's. I need to pass each URL from a bash script to be used in an AppleScript.
while read urls
do
osascript -e \
'tell application "Safari"
tell window 1
tell current tab to open location "$urls"
end tell
end tell'
done <file.txt
This doesn't work. It passes the literal string $urls as the location to be opened in Safari. How can I pass the bash variable $urls to AppleScript?
This should work:
while read urls
do
osascript -e "tell application \"Safari\" to open location \"$urls\""
done<file.txt
The quotes don't expand the variable in AppleScript. What you need to do is ESCAPE the quotes:
'tell current tab to open location \"$urls\"`
However, a better way to do this is using run argv. For example:
#!/bin/bash
url="foobar.com"
osascript -e 'on run {myurl}' -e 'tell application "Safari" to set the URL of the document to myurl' -e 'end run' $url
My preference is to use a separate script for the AppleScript. In bash, this would look like:
#!/bin/bash
osascript -e 'do scriptname \"$url\"'
syntax error: A “,” can’t go after this command name.