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Re: AS and shell

Title: Re: AS and shell
On 30.11.2006 15:57, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> spake thus:

> Jay Louvion wrote:
>>  I don’t know how I can integrate
>> the line breaks there are in this shell in the “do shell” command.
> You have to say something like this:
>
> "echo " & someText & " | sed -e 's|,|\\" & (ASCII character 10) & ¬
> "|5" & (ASCII character 10) & ¬
> ":loop" & (ASCII character 10) & ¬
> "s|\\(.*\\),\\(.*\\n\\)|\\1~\\2|;tloop" & (ASCII character 10) & ¬
> "s|\\n|~|' "
>
> You send one long multiline string with UNIX lineendings. Very messy.
>
> Hopefully a future upgrade of Applescript will include some sort of
> "meta-quote" system for sending shell scripts from Applescript.
>
> -- Gnarlie
>

I must say that I was much more tempted by Michelle’s “;” - since very honestly I didn’t get a thing of the above few lines. If you have the time to explain, it would indeed be very enlightening.

Cordialement,

j.

Jay Louvion
Studio Casagrande
3, rue Müller-Brun
1208 Geneva

T+4122 840 3272
F+4122 840 3271

skypeme:
jaylouvion

www.studiocasagrande.com


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