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Okay I am trying what I thought would not be difficult. I see many articles showing how to use shell variable in osascript what I want is the opposite. I want to move a osascript variable out to a shell script.

So lets say I have this.
osascript<<END display dialog "Are you ready to begin the installer" buttons {"Yes", "No"} set the answer to the button returned of the result
END

How do I get answer out of the osascript into my shell. I have tried the following

Result=$(/usr/bin/osascript -e 'display dialog "Are you ready to begin the installer" buttons {"Yes", "No"}')

echo “${Results}”

what is echoed back is ""

The assistance of the community is appreciated.

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    • Johnny_Kim
    • Contributor
    • 157 replies
    • August 13, 2014

    Not sure about osascript, but you can try using cocoadialog with the "yesno-msgbox" option.

    mm2270
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    • mm2270
    • Legendary Contributor
    • 7880 replies
    • August 13, 2014
    #!/bin/sh

Result=$(/usr/bin/osascript<<END
tell application "System Events"
activate
set the answer to the button returned of (display dialog "Are you ready to begin the installer" buttons {"Yes", "No"})
end tell
END)

echo "The button clicked was: $Result"
    bentoms
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    • bentoms
    • Legendary Contributor
    • 4331 replies
    • August 13, 2014

    @ifbell, your echoing out the $Results variable.. But are setting the $Result variable.

    So that little "s" may have been it.

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