I have two pieces of code. One is Applescript and the other a Bash shell script. The shell script needs to run concurrently with the applescript, return some values and then exit. The problem is the shell script's read -p prompt does not pause for user input when called from within applescript using do shell script "/path/to/script.sh".
I thought maybe
display dialog "Query?" default answer ""
set T to text returned of result
could replace the read -p prompt but I can't figure out how to make either way work. How cam use either of these methods to properly ask and wait for user entry?
I realize I could cut the applescript in two sections placing one at the beginning of the shell script and one after the last shell command.
#!/bin/bash
osascript ~/Start_Script.scpt
echo 'enter some Text'
read -p "" T
## for things in stuff do more
## stuff while doing other things
## done
osascript ~/End_Script.scpt
This is what I've been doing and it does work. But it requires using the terminal which is fine for me. But if I wanted to show someone like my Mom.. well she's just not going to open the Terminal app. So it would be nice to find a way to emulate the read -p command within Applescript itself and be able to pass a variable along to the embedded shell script.