Hello, I have a question about 'echo' in "do shell script" command. I want to pass a text (which may contain new lines, and any Unicode characters) to a shell script, and I tried to use: do shell script "echo" & space & quoted form of the_text & space & "| perl -e '...' | ..." BUT I realize that 'echo' takes an argument which ends with a new line. For example, if I have testfile.txt with the following content: a <space>b c <space>d e <space>f 'cat /tmp/testfile.txt' will output the same text as testfile.txt. But 'echo `cat testfile.txt` will return a b c d e f But if I write the same text for example in Nisus Writer Express, and I do: tell application "Nisus Writer Express" set the_text to selected text of document 1 end tell do shell script "echo " & quoted form of the_text I seem to get the right result. But this seems strange, and perhaps not very safe way to put the input data into STDOUT. Perhaps I may use something like: do shell script "perl -e '$_ = shift; print'" & space & quoted form of the_text & space & "| ..." ?? Thank you in advance for any insight. Best regards, Nobumi Iyanaga Tokyo, Japan