At 04:54 -0500 9/22/12, Christopher Stone wrote:
>Today I was prototyping some shell stuff for an Applescript, which I sometimes
>do in a BBEdit worksheet due to the extra quoting necessary in Applescript. I
>like to get it working before I have to futz with the quoting.
>
>Anyway. Today I didn't feel like bothering to save my test data to a file and
>working from that, so I thought "there has to be a better way"...
>
>I thought about using text from an unsaved window, and after a few minutes of
>wrestling to get the syntax right I came up with this:
>
>WIN="untitled text 11"
>echo -e "tell application \"BBEdit\"\nreturn text of text window \"$WIN\"\nend
>tell" 2>&1 | osascript \
> | tr '\r' '\n' \
> | awk '/src=.+\.jpg/ { print }' \
> | sed -En '/<a href=.+nyet/{
> s/.+(http:.+\.jpg).+/\1/p
>}'
>
>I thought the general principle might be of use to someone, and I'm interested
>in better ways to accomplish this task if there are any.
Have a look at shell tools pbcopy and pbpaste. They can copy stdin into the
clipboard and copy the clipbnoard to stdout.
I miss them on my Linux box.
date | pbcopy
cat somefile | pbcopy
pbpaste | tcsh
Are a particularly useful things to keep around in a bbedit worksheet.
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