Re: shell script with top "can't get terminal attributes"?
Re: shell script with top "can't get terminal attributes"?
- Subject: Re: shell script with top "can't get terminal attributes"?
- From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:55:45 -0800
On Monday, February 11, 2002, at 08:00 AM, Charles Arthur
<email@hidden> wrote:
More generally, though, as one who's excited by this big hinterland
discovered in /usr/bin/ and /usr/sbin/ - in fact is standing there
staring
like stout Cortez with eagle eyes and a wild surmise on this Pacific of
software - how does one find out what the hell all those programs *do*,
and
which is the right one to do whatever with?
Is there a ready reference out there, or even buried OMM?
set theRoot to POSIX path of (path to startup disk)
repeat with theBin in {"usr/bin/", "usr/sbin/"}
repeat with theCommand in (list folder (POSIX file (theRoot & theBin)))
set theManPage to do shell script ("man " & (paragraph 1 of
theCommand) & " | colcrt -")
if theManPage does not start with "man: no entry for" then
tell application "TextEdit"
make new document at end of documents
set name of document 1 to (paragraph 1 of theCommand) as string
set every text of document 1 to theManPage
end tell
end if
end repeat
end repeat
This illustrates the general principle; alter as you wish. Be ready
with command-period.
Chris (E.)
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