Hi,

> I'm running a script via terminal using:
> osascript -lJavaScript filename.js
>
> but I can't seem to be able to output any text to the terminal.
> Core.message is designed for popups (and doesnt work anyways), print,
> output, write, etc don't seem to work.
>
> Does anyone know any way to just output a line of text?

The problem here is the osascript tool. There is a 'log' AppleEvent for
this purpose, but osascript does not seem to respond to it.

Testing from AppleScript, it does not seem to work:

osascript -e 'log "testing"'

If this were to work, you could generate the same event from JS.

Now, if you only want to display one block of text, you can return it as the
value of the script:

osascript -lJavaScript -e '"Testing"'

The only alternative I can think of is dropping down to the shell:

osascript -e 'do shell script "echo testing"'

Which works. So, in JSOSA this would look like:

osascript -lJavaScript -e 'MacOS.appSelf().do_shell_script("echo testing")'

You can wrap this in a function and add it to the Core object and then its
available everywhere.

Cheers
-Mark

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