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applescript window dialog
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pass-user-input-into-shell-script.sh
getUserInput()
{
launchctl asuser $(stat -f %u /dev/console) osascript <<-APPLESCRIPT
tell app "System Events"
text returned of (display dialog "$1" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button 1)
end tell
APPLESCRIPT
}
var=$(getUserInput "type string:")
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