Re: Metamorphosax! (revisited)
Re: Metamorphosax! (revisited)
- Subject: Re: Metamorphosax! (revisited)
- From: David Blache <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 11:16:25 -0600
on 2/7/2001 2:37 AM, John W Baxter at email@hidden wrote:
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At 17:58 -0600 2/6/01, David Blache wrote:
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> Yep - I say bring it on. I would hope these guys are considering moving
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> most or all of their stuff to Mac OS X. I'm personally going to try to do
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> what I can to port FindFile and other scripting additions to Mac OS X. Now
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> is definitely a great time to let scripting addition authors know what
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> features you need/want in Mac OS X.
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I know that the terminal window will scare many Mac OS X users (some of
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whom SHOULD be scared, but those probably shouldn't use AppleScript
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either), but in the case of FindFile, it will be difficult to better the
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traditional Unix find command (and particularly the GNU modernization of
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it).
Hmm... But how would a script use the command line? ;) FindFile FBA would
be for allowing people to search for files in a script, not in a command
line.
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[For many purposes, a FindFile scriptable FBA could probably just convert
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its parameters into a call to find and present the results.]
FindFile doesn't just present the results. It filters the files and formats
them into lists or blocks of text or even files, and the number of
formatting options will increase as time goes on. I've gotten many requests
to add to the functionality of FindFile. If the need is there for such a
scripting addition, I'll certainly try to provide it.
It sounds like you are saying that scripters don't need such a solution in
Mac OS X. Do you know something I don't? Last time I checked there was no
good file search capability available to Mac OS X scripters.
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On Mac OS X FindFile FBA will (without forcing itself to run as the admin
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user or root, which it certainly shouldn't) be unable to "see" files which
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the account running it can't see due to not having suitable directory
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permissions. That problem/benefit is already here in Mac OS 9 multiple
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users.
I don't see that as a problem. That's the way it should work.
-David