I'm trying to run an AppleScript script from the terminal, however I can't get it to print anything by calling
osascript myFile.scpt "/path/to/a/file"
I'm trying:
on run fileName
set unique_songs to paragraphs of (read POSIX file fileName)
repeat with nextLine in unique_songs
if length of nextLine is greater than 0 then
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tab
set song to text item 2 of nextLine
set artist to text item 3 of nextLine
set album to text item 4 of nextLine
set output to ("Song: " & song & " - " & artist & " - " & album)
copy output to stdout
end if
end repeat
end run
The tab delimited file is formatted something like this:
1282622675 Beneath the Balcony Iron & Wine The Sea & the Rhythm
1282622410 There Goes the Fear Doves (500) Days of Summer
1282622204 Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Tabs aren't really showing up well on this :(
When running the AppleScript with #!/usr/bin/osascript
, you can just return your desired text output with a return statement at the end of your script.