It would help to know the example text you use when it works and
fails. I suspect the text has a newline or space in it and the
resulting shell script has parsing issues. You want to escape the
newlines or quote the whole text *in the script*. (or you might try a
here script). I'll leave you to experiment. :)
Howard
On Apr 16, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Chris Cairns wrote:
set thetext to the clipboard
do shell script "echo " & thetext & "| qs -"
set thetext to the clipboard
do shell script "echo " & thetext & "| qs "
These scripts do not work reliably. Sometimes they work and at other
times quicksilver's first pane opens with the clipping icon but no
text in it.
Please dont suggest me alternatives ( i dont have Clipboard plugin
installed because I cannot adjust to its behavior and secondly, for
some reasons, i want this to work).
Even when i set a delay of 5 seconds between the two lines of code
and try to use only a couple of lines of plain text, it fails.
However, once in while i get this error:
AppleScript Error
sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
I also think that the problem is with Quicksilver or shell but not
applescript because it applescript's result pane, i can see the
clipboard contents.
