Re: scripting Terminal
Re: scripting Terminal
- Subject: Re: scripting Terminal
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:37:24 +0200
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At 19:15 -0700 UTC, on 28/03/2001, garbanzito wrote:
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at 3/28/01, 1:37 PM -0900, they whom i call hciR nellA wrote:
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>does anyone know if/when Terminal (OS X) will be scriptable?
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depends how you wish to script it. Terminal's not
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scriptable yet (will it be? i hope so), but an AppleScript
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can send command text to shell session by writing it to a
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file with an extension of ".command", and then opening that
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file, which will pass the file as a shell script to
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Terminal.
I just _had_ to try that right of course :) But, on Mac OS X PB, not only
can't I get Terminal to open such a file 'manually' even, I can't even get
close to creating it:
tell app "Desktop"
set theFile to make file
end
set theFileRef to open for access theFile with write permission
--> Error -1700. "Can't make document file [*] into an item"
(Where it says [*] it lists the path to the file.)
It creates the file just fine. And it knows how to refer to it, as "delete
theFile" works fine too. I just can't open it for access to write to it.
Is this a known bug in Mac OS X PB? (If so, I assume this is fixed in Mac OS
X 10.0?) I don't see anything in the Standard Additions that suggests this
has changed from Mac OS 9.0.4.
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