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Created October 31, 2011 06:34
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Cute little script to help in making interactive script when STDIN is unavailable
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quick_dialog_osascript
#!/usr/bin/ruby
result = `/usr/bin/osascript <<EOT
tell application "Terminal"
activate
set Input to display dialog "Enter Text:" with title "Hello" with icon 0 default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button 1
return text returned of Input as string
end tell
EOT
`
puts result
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