Pass in variable from shell script to applescript
Shell variables doesn't expanding inside single quotes. When you to want pass a shell variable to osascript you need to use double "" quotes. The problem is, than you must escape double quotes needed inside the osascript, like:
the script
say "Hello" using "Alex"you need escape quotes
text="Hello"osascript -e "say \"$text\" using \"Alex\""This not very readable, therefore it much better to use the bash's heredoc feature, like
text="Hello world"osascript <<EOFsay "$text" using "Alex"EOFAnd you can write multiline script inside for a free, it is much better than using multiple -e args...
You can also use a run handler or export:
osascript -e 'on run argv item 1 of argvend run' aaosascript -e 'on run argv item 1 of argvend run' -- -aaosascript - -aa <<'END' 2> /dev/nullon run {a} aend runENDexport v=1osascript -e 'system attribute "v"'I don't know any way to get STDIN. on run {input, arguments} only works in Automator.