need help with script - either shell or applescript

[twoodcc]

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

[Airr]

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.

[Airr]

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.

[acr4]

uptime | perl -ne 'split //;foreach(@_){print "$_\n";};' >> myFile

 

echo -e `uptime | sed 's/\(.\)/\1\\\n/g'` >> myFile