With jamf displayMessage the box does increase, but possibly to a maximum size! Running 8.31. I guess you are trying to write more than this to your display box; I get 17 lines.
With respect to
, try:
display dialog "
o return"
the first slash will escape the second slash forcing it to be read as text.
Unix normally works with forward slashes not backward slashes, that's a windows thing. If you use:
su [username] -c printenv
Then you can get a full list of the users environment, including their home account
su [username] -c printenv | grep HOME | cut -d "=" -f 2
but with the bonus of forward slashes.
So you could have something like:
tell application "Terminal"
set myPath to (do shell script "su " & myUser & " -c printenv | grep HOME | cut -d "=" -f 2")
end tell
display dialog myPath
You'll need to set your variable for myUser
You could do text manipulation in AppleScript, but personally I find it quite boring and much prefer bash. I don't know what other information you are providing, but this would work for home and groups:
tell application "Terminal"
set myPath to (do shell script "id -Gn sholden | tr " " "
"")
set myHome to (do shell script "su " & myUser & " -c printenv | grep HOME | cut -d "=" -f 2")
end tell
display dialog myHome & return & myPath
Sean
