How do I specify udp port with applescript?

[moshed]

i know in shell i can do echo -n black | nc -4u -w0 localhost <port number> but i cant figure out how to accomplish this in applescript (besides using do shell script "command")

http://imgur.com/a/tlRXc

this would suggest its possible to set the udp port but i cant figure out the syntax.

[tonsky]

AppleScript API doesn’t work through UDP. It issues commands directly (through Apple APIs? I’m not an expert in those). So the way it should work for you must be to find an instance with the port you need and issue command to that specific instance

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[moshed]

hmm ok ill try and report my results here thanks!

[npazo]

I found that doing do shell script doesn't work as you would expect. Because the echo it uses by default doesn't support -n. Therefore I had to provide the full path to echo. Thus my AppleScript line became:

do shell script "/bin/echo -n 'blue' | nc -4u -w0 localhost 1738"

Might want to add to the README for anyone else that tries to do this.

[moshed]

yeah i arrived at same conclusion @npazo did.