Re: do shell script problems

Subject: Re: do shell script problems
From: "Philip M. Aker" <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 02:42:32 -0700

On Saturday, Jul 26, 2003, at 23:31 US/Pacific, Scott C. Brown 02 wrote:

one simple example is the unix program "shorten." Typing "shorten -h" in the terminal gives me the help screen. if I

do shell script "/usr/local/bin/shorten -h"

then the help screen does not go to standard output but standard error.

Something like:

do shell script "/Developer/Tools/SetFile 2>&1 &"

is often used when re-direction from stderr is desirable. There is an AppleScript tech note about this behavior which Chris Nebel often mentions. Sorry I don't have the link at hand.

I wish I knew the rhyme and reason of which tool will produce info on stderr instead of stdout though:

do shell script "/usr/local/bin/gs -h"

works fine for instance. Must be missing the Unix HIG manual...

Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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