[Adam Price]

I am trying to build a script that will paste the output of a shell
command (fortune) to whatever application is currently open. (I want a to use a keystroke to insert a randomized signature into whatever app I am using) This is my
first attempt at script writing, and I realize my script so far doesn't work.


• ****SO FAR***** on run
   tell application "Terminal"
      activate

set the clipboard to (do script with command
"/Users/ami/bin/fortune /Volumes/Britches/documents/mdb/sig_fortunes")

end tell
   paste the clipboard
end run


• *****END*****

I know I need some sort of "paste the clipboard into the current
application"

but I can't figure out how to do it.

If I take out "set the clipboard to" and "paste the clipboard" the
script sucessfully opens a shell and runs the command, but of course it
is not pasted into the application that was originally open.

Any help would be appreciated,
Adam

[seb2]

no idea about applescript, but why don't you just pipe the command's output to pbcopy?

i mean, try typing "ls | pbcopy" in terminal.app and you have ls's output in your clipboard.

in cocoa, you can easily set one nstask's output as another one's input; no idea how to do that in applescript, sorry.