twoodcc Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 ok, so what i want to do is make some sort of script, either applescript or shell script, that will do the following: take out from a command in the terminal put that output into a text file already on my computer. the only thing is that i need to put the output in the file kinda weird: i need to take it and put each character of output on a new line, but not create new lines example: take output of command 'uptime' (up 32 days, 23:09) place in file 'myFile' output: ... key u key p key space key 3 key 2 key space key d ... anyone have any idea on how to do this? thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/133353-need-help-with-script-either-shell-or-applescript/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airr Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Quick and dirty way with bash: #!/bin/bash upTime=`uptime` upTimeLength=${#upTime} upTimeIndex=0 while [ $upTimeIndex -le $upTimeLength ]; do echo ${upTime:$upTimeIndex:1} >> tmpfile.txt let upTimeIndex=upTimeIndex+1 done AIR. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/133353-need-help-with-script-either-shell-or-applescript/#findComment-965006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airr Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 And a quick and dirty AppleScript. Save this as an app in Script Editor and execute from the Finder: set myText to "" set theFile to "tmpfile2.txt" as file specification set upTime to do shell script ("uptime") set upTimeLength to the number of characters of upTime set upTimeIndex to 1 repeat while upTimeIndex is less than or equal to upTimeLength set myText to myText & (character upTimeIndex of upTime) & return set upTimeIndex to upTimeIndex + 1 end repeat open for access theFile with write permission write myText to theFile starting at eof as text close access theFile AIR. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/133353-need-help-with-script-either-shell-or-applescript/#findComment-965060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
acr4 Posted November 17, 2008 Share Posted November 17, 2008 uptime | perl -ne 'split //;foreach(@_){print "$_\n";};' >> myFile echo -e `uptime | sed 's/\(.\)/\1\\\n/g'` >> myFile Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/133353-need-help-with-script-either-shell-or-applescript/#findComment-968357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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