Re: Shell script date & time coercions...
Re: Shell script date & time coercions...
- Subject: Re: Shell script date & time coercions...
- From: Matthew Stuckwisch <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:32:48 -0600
Not sure how the library/osax methods compare for speed to the shell
script, but will hopefully find out sometime this week when I finally
succumb to the dreaded OS X disease...
Shortly after which you'll be seeing all sorts of previously trivial
little
things you took for granted in OS 9 as 'biggies'.
I'll do both of these at once. OSX also brings forth quite a bit of stuff
to the point you -can't- go back to the OS9. I've tried. It doesn't work.
I keep looking for the dock, I want to open up a terminal. Heck, I want
Fire and OmniWeb ;-)
Also, shell scripts are just like typing a command into Terminal.app .
Speed wise? MUCH faster. When I was backing up my drive (power flicked
on OSX's optimization phase...twice...and I couldn't manually re-prebind),
the first time I copied all my files with Finder. Easily took two hours
over FireWire. The second time doing it with the Terminal command "sudo
cp -R ~/guifa/ Volumes/FW40/Matt/guifa/" (and then typing in my password)
took MUCH less time (though with the command I put above you can't
actually see the progress, oh well). Shell scripts should run as fast as
they would had they been typed into a terminal. Also, unlike OSAX, you
can expect everyone you distribute your script to to be able to run shell
scripts (assuming they're on OSX).
Actually, this reminds me of something...are AppleScripts granted root
priveleges, or is there a way for sudo commands to also offer the password?
(just a random question)
Matthew Stuckwisch
[AIM/MSN]{GuifaSwimmer} | [Yahoo!]{SapphireTree} | [ICQ]{137477701}
[IRC]{guifa / G}(esperNET / irc.massinova.com)
/me guesses he's the only one here using AS Studio and popup buttons... :P
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