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: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:58:22 -0800
On 1/28/02 11:22 PM, "Jon Pugh" <email@hidden> wrote:
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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")
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Ed Lai's KinderShell does exactly this, and another point I wanted to make was
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that we could combine our efforts and create a bunch of AppleScript commands
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and their unix equivalents on this list. Then some enterprising youngster
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with time on his hands could build the aete and table that Ed defined and
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produce a new version of the KinderShell with vast and immense powers. Then
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we'll lobby Apple to include it, since it contains no code.
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Wouldn't that make everyone happy?
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Sounds good to me. Anything directly operating the Unix commands on which
the OS is built, but with an AS-type syntax, is bound to work well, fast and
reliably.
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Paul Berkowitz