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I am running the following line within a shell script:
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "$1"'
I want to be able to type the $1 using applescript. Is there any way for the $1 to come out as what I type in to the terminal after the script? Now, it just types literally $1.
Put them in single quotes, like this –