find error do shell script with rsync command

Where is the do shell script command?

All you're doing is setting risulato to a string.

You will note that any non zero rc out of do shell script invokes on error.

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Author: rccharles

For testing, run in the Script Editor.

1) Click on the Event Log tab to see the output from the log statement

2) Click on Run

For running shell commands see:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html

It is easier to diagnose problems with debug information. I suggest adding log statements to your script to see what is going on. Here is an example.

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on run

-- Write a message into the event log.

log " --- Starting on " & ((current date) as string) & " --- "

-- debug lines

set desktopPath to (path to desktop) as string

log "desktopPath = " & desktopPath

set unixDesktopPath to POSIX path of desktopPath

log "unixDesktopPath = " & unixDesktopPath

set quotedUnixDesktopPath to quoted form of unixDesktopPath

log "quoted form is " & quotedUnixDesktopPath

try

set fromUnix to do shell script "ls -l " & quotedUnixDesktopPath

display dialog "ls -l of " & quotedUnixDesktopPath & return & fromUnix

on error errMsg

log "ls -l error..." & errMsg

end try

end run

I think rccharles has the answer... rsync returns a result code based on the success (or otherwise) of the command. In this case I think you're likely getting a result code of 23 which indicates 'Partial transfer due to error'. This isn't necessarily indicative of a failure of the entire process, just that specific items could not be synched. It isn't clear from your post whether there were other files that could/should have been synched, or whether they were.

In either case, the simple 'fix' here is to wrap your do shell script in a try/end try block. This will catch the error and prevent the AppleScript from failing.

set rsyncCmd to "/usr/bin/rsync -blah -blah -blah 2>&1"

try

do shell script rsyncCmd

on error

-- do nothing, we don't care (unless you want to examine what happened)

end try

Can you show me how to show a simple progress bar, changing the applescript above, that shows building file list and the backup file?

There is no 'simple progress bar' option here.

By default, AppleScript is single threaded and will wait for each command to execute before processing the next. This means, ordinarily, that AppleScript will wait for the do shell script command to finish before it would get to the line that displays the progress bar.

There's one exception to this rule, but it's not pretty. It involves executing the shell command in the background and redirecting its logs to a specific file. The AppleScript code following the do shell script command then loops through reading the file to determine the current state of the shell process. The problem is compunded with AppleScript's limited user interaction - about the most you can do is a 'display dialog', which doesn't give you much flexibility. In most cases, interactive apps are better handled via AppleScriptObjC which has the full (or, at least, fuller) UI options.