>>>>> On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:03:07 -0800 (PST), <[email protected]> said:

> I'd like to get some information from running the `osascript` command on 
> MacOS X, For example:

>     julia> run(`osascript -e "display dialog \"Character\" default answer 
> \"#\""`)
>     button returned:OK, text returned:#

>     julia> typeof(ans)
>     Void

> I tried to use `readall` to read the result that's printed/returned, but no 
> luck.

>     julia> readall(run(`osascript -e "display dialog \"Character\" default 
> answer \"#\""`))
>     button returned:OK, text returned:#
>     ERROR: MethodError: `readall` has no method matching readall(::Void)

> Anyone know of a trick to get information back from this process?

Leave out the run.

julia> x = readall(`osascript -e "display dialog \"Character\" default answer 
\"#\""`)

I think this is going to change a little in 0.5.

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