Re: Shell script date & time coercions...
Re: Shell script date & time coercions...
- Subject: Re: Shell script date & time coercions...
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 23:06:13 -0800
At 11:32 -0600 4/2/2002, Matthew Stuckwisch wrote:
>
The second time doing it with the Terminal command "sudo
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cp -R ~/guifa/ Volumes/FW40/Matt/guifa/" (and then typing in my password)
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took MUCH less time (though with the command I put above you can't
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actually see the progress, oh well).
Don't rely on that backup for anything which is supposed to have an
HFS/HFS+ resource fork. (Not copying the resource forks is almost
certainly not the reason for all of the time difference.) Or a particular
owner and group (-Rp would have been better).
>
Actually, this reminds me of something...are AppleScripts granted root
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priveleges, or is there a way for sudo commands to also offer the password?
This may or may not be what you want:
Dictionary entry [hand wrapped] ("altering line endings" is new and beta)
do shell script: execute a shell script or command
(defined in: StandardAdditions.osax)
do shell script string -- the command or shell script to execute.
Examples are 'ls' or '/bin/ps -auxwww'
[administrator privileges boolean]
-- execute the command as the administrator
[password string]
-- use this administrator password to avoid a password dialog
[altering line endings boolean] -- change all line endings
to Mac-style and trim a trailing one (default true)
[Result: string] -- the command output
--
John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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