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: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:50:48 +0000
Jon Pugh wrote:
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However, I've had a bit of an epiphany I thought I would share.
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These unix shells will probably make most scripting additions unnecessary.
There was a similar sort of discussion a few weeks back, as I remember.
IIRC, Chris Nebel mentioned something about speed being an issue - that was
regarding using regex from the shell compared to from an osax, so I don't
know if it's an issue with all aspects of shell scripting, or simply with
that one in particular. I suspect this is something that would be worth
looking into further, before making any major decisions.
My own comment was that, given that many ASers aren't Unix heads, what
would be really great would be for a AS-cum-unix person to write a
library/module [1] that would make these shell-based functions to be
performed using regular AS handler calls. You know the sort of thing:
on friendlyLookingHandler()
do shell script "[something that looks like a lot of line noise here]"
end friendlyLookingHandler
Write up some nice, easy-to-read docs [2], post some place like AppleMods,
then tell everyone about it.
Cheers,
has
[1] (Surprise-surprise! <g> ;)
[2] Serge already mentioned something about this.