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Geared toward programmers with no prior development knowledge, Beginning AppleScript serves as a comprehensive guide to using AppleScript on the Mac OS X platform. This title introduces the reader to AppleScript, and then illustrates how to efficiently start writing scripts through sample programs as each concept is introduced.

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dbug13 on 06/10/07


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Ping Google and display result in quicksilver

Published in: AppleScript 

I use this to test if my internet connection is up, I run it from quicksilver, it's much faster for me than opening up a terminal.


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  1. set strData to do shell script "ping -c 3 google.com"
  2.  
  3. tell app "Quicksilver"
  4. 	show large type strData
  5. end tell

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