I want to pass the contents of a document through a Unix script and use the
result in an AppleScript, and I'm running into a line-endings problem. For
example, let's say my AppleScript is
tell application "BBEdit"
set myText to contents of front document
set lineCount to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of myText & " |
wc -l | sed 's/ //g'"
-- go on and do something with lineCount
end tell
This script returns values like "2" or "3" no matter how many lines the
front document has (I always use Unix line endings and UTF-8).
I assumed the problem has something to do with line endings. To test this,
I ran this AppleScript
tell application "BBEdit"
set myText to contents of front document
set tPath to path to desktop from user domain as text
set tPath to tPath & "test.txt"
set fileID to open for access tPath with write permission
set eof fileID to 0
write myText to fileID as class «utf8»
close access fileID
end tell
and looked at the "test.txt" file in a hex editor. As I suspected, the line
endings are OD (CR) instead of 0A (LF). Why is this, and what can I do to
get "contents of front document" to return LFs instead of CRs?
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