Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- From: Steven Angier <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 14:08:21 +1100
- Organization: Macscript.com
Timothy Bates wrote:
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Wrapped shell scripts are slow. They are also much more easily perverted
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(someone just rewrites your cp() handler to say "rm -rf *" and bingo, you
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have an iTunes installer :-)
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Finally, as applescript has no way of including scripts in the way that it
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includes extensions, they must be explicitly included in all scripts. Way
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painful.
It's not painful at all if you manipulate your script's parent property, and OSAXen aren't
portable.
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If you write Jons again, I predict 10,000 downloads in the first week.
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Paradoxically, Jons is one of the less important osax, top of the list being
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Tanaka, RegEx and Akua.
Interesting. Jon's Commands is the only one I've had a consistent need for. The others have
been of no or little use to me.
Steven Angier
Macscript.com