dscl Applescript carriage return query

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#1

Hi

I am trying to write an applescript that will populate some details from AD using dsl. I am stuck at the moment trying to work out how to get a value which has a carriage return

I currently have:

set loggedInUser to do shell script "whoami"
do shell script "dscl . -read /Users/" & loggedInUser

Which shows the bit i am interested in below:

JobTitle:
Systems Engineer

I have tried the following but it just returns “JobTitle:”

set JobTitle to do shell script "dscl . -read /Users/" & loggedInUser & " | grep JobTitle: "

Please can someone tell me if it is possible to output the job title correctly as it seem difficult to grep also the carriage return and the space

#2

This works for RealName (because I don’t have an entry named job title) and is also multiline

set loggedInUser to do shell script "whoami"
set realName to do shell script "dscl . -read /Users/" & loggedInUser & " RealName | tail -1 | sed -e 's/^ *//g;s/ *$//g'"
#3

Thanks very much :smiley: i wouldn’t never have been able to work that out in a million years.