Re: do shell script bug
Re: do shell script bug
- Subject: Re: do shell script bug
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:06:45 -0700
Sounds like you know about this.
But my problem is actually slightly different. I'm running a
do shell script "'shell script that returns Unicode'"
And it's been changed to
do shell script "'shell script that returns Unicode' > /path/to/file"
and then I do
do shell script "perl -e 'open F, qq(/path/to/file); print <F>'"
and the perl line gives me the error I'm trying to avoid!
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Seth A. Roby
Scriptwriter Intern
"Life is like an exploded clown. It's really funny until you figure out
what just happened."
John Delacour
<email@hidden> To: email@hidden
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applescript-users-admin@list Subject: Re: do shell script bug
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08/10/2002 01:16 AM
At 4:11 pm -0700 9/8/02, email@hidden wrote:
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open text edit. hold down control and option and hit a few keys. Some
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random characters and a lot of random whitespace will appear. Save the
file
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as Unicode 16.
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Run this script:
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do shell script "cat /path/to/file"
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You get the error:
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Can't make some data into the expected type.
Unicode tends not to include random characters!
In TextEdit, save a text (not rtf) file named "abg.txt" in you
Documents folder.
Switch to Unicode input and type with the OPTION key down
03b103b203b3
Save the file as Unicode -- it contains the three characters
lower-case "alphabetagamma"
now run
do shell script "cd; cd Doc*; perl -e'
open F, qq(abg.txt) ; print <F>'"
and you will get the contents of the file including the #254#255 at
the beginning.
"~123"
JD
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