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: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:22:26 -0800
At 6:01 PM +1100 1/29/02, Timothy Bates wrote:
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So ... Osaxen are dead if we can call them from scripts using a pretty
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printing syntax like " list files in <dir> with showing all" (instead of
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shell script "ls -a " & dir as string")
Ed Lai's KinderShell does exactly this, and another point I wanted to make was that we could combine our efforts and create a bunch of AppleScript commands and their unix equivalents on this list. Then some enterprising youngster with time on his hands could build the aete and table that Ed defined and produce a new version of the KinderShell with vast and immense powers. Then we'll lobby Apple to include it, since it contains no code.
Wouldn't that make everyone happy?
Jon