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Re: do shell script FREEZES Finder!!

On Apr 26, 2004, at 10:43 AM, Nigel Smith wrote:

On 26/4/04 9:35, "Richard Covert" <email@hidden> wrote:

set shell_cmd to "cd " & POSIX_Path & ,
" && /usr/local/bin/rar a -s -v10M -vn " & BaseHostName & ,
" SeanHannity_0423_CommericalFree.mp3 2>&1&"

As you can see, I have tried to put the UNIX command in the background,
and yet the Finder still freezes!!!

You also need to tell the backgrounded process *where* to put any output:

set shell_cmd to "cd " & POSIX_Path & ,
" && /usr/local/bin/rar a -s -v10M -vn " & BaseHostName & ,
" SeanHannity_0423_CommericalFree.mp3 /file/path 2>&1&"

If you don't want the output, send it to the "bit bucket"

set shell_cmd to "cd " & POSIX_Path & ,
" && /usr/local/bin/rar a -s -v10M -vn " & BaseHostName & ,
" SeanHannity_0423_CommericalFree.mp3 /dev/null 2>&1&"

One thing to note, you missed putting the divert character in there so this will fail. It needs to have a > in front of the file to divert stdout to:

set shell_cmd to "cd " & POSIX_Path & " && /usr/local/bin/rar a -s -v10M -vn " & BaseHostName & " SeanHannity_0423_CommericalFree.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1&"

- Ken
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