Bash script won't go into conditional statement even though it's true

Try exporting the variables returned from the spreadsheet as they probably are not being passed to the Applescript

I've had this previously crossing into another language within the script, you have to export the variables.

#!/bin/sh
# Set start script runtime
startTime=$(date +%s)
sleep 30s
# Calculate script run time and display
finishTime=$(date +%s)
totalTime=$((finishTime - startTime))

export totalTime

# Applescript to display completed message
osascript -e 'display notification "Completed in '$totalTime' secs. with title "Script Timer"'

Hi guys -

Actually, a shell script or the shell will pass a bash variable to the osascript command without need for exporting. Also, in the osascript example above, there is a missing quote. Your command should look like this:

osascript -e 'display notification "Completed in '$totalTime' secs." with title "Script Timer"'

Your example is missing a double quote after the word "secs."

1 last thing: this is an odd example (as are most AppleScript snippets) of quoting. In most scripting languages single quotes enable literal strings, meaning, characters in between single quotes are interpreted as characters & special characters don't have their normal functions. In bash, this would mean that something like:

'$totalTime'

would not undergo variable expansion but would literally just print $totalTime. As you can see in AppleScript this is not the case, so, be careful. Happy Scripting!