[rlmorel]

Hi Everyone,
I am a newbie at Applescript, have done some minimal C programming. I cannot seem to figure out how to get a command passed via applescript to the terminal? I have looked everywhere, and it looks like the 'do script'

do script: Run a UNIX shell script or command do script with command string -- data to be passed to the Terminal application as the command linecommand is what I want, but I cannot for the life of me figure out the syntax. Can anyone enlighten me, perhaps send me to a good source or whatever? Thanks for your time...
Bob Morel

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Originally posted by rlmorel:
<STRONG>Hi Everyone,
I am a newbie at Applescript, have done some minimal C programming. I cannot seem to figure out how to get a command passed via applescript to the terminal? I have looked everywhere, and it looks like the 'do script'

do script: Run a UNIX shell script or command do script with command string -- data to be passed to the Terminal application as the command linecommand is what I want, but I cannot for the life of me figure out the syntax. Can anyone enlighten me, perhaps send me to a good source or whatever? Thanks for your time...
Bob Morel</STRONG>

Well technically the answer to your question is:

tell application "Terminal" to do script "top"

But a better thing to do, imho, instead of having to launch the terminal is to: do shell script "top"
That will execute the command without launching any other apps.