Re: In praise of "do script" (and the AppleScript team)
Re: In praise of "do script" (and the AppleScript team)
- Subject: Re: In praise of "do script" (and the AppleScript team)
- From: Matthew Stuckwisch <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:39:33 -0500
Fooling with that devil's spawn which is URL Access Scripting, I decided
that life is too short to play with this, so I checked out curl. Coupled
with do script, this works brilliantly. Thank you AppleScript team for
giving us such a deceptively simple tool.
The only problem I've found in all my usage of "do shell script" is that
when listing POSIX paths, there is no easy way to put in the special
characters. Perhaps someone could figure out a way to convert all special
characters to their POSIX equivalent (eg, not doing the classic method of
replacing them with a "*", which means spaces then have to become "\ "
since you can then no longer put them in quotes), or maybe the AS team
could implement that conversion in the next release? To my knowledge
changing this samll aspect won't cause any conflicts.
Matthew Stuckwisch
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