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: Reinhold Penner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:12:19 -1000
Jon,
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I decided to lookup dichotomy, so I used this nifty Eudora script:
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tell application "Eudora"
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set t to selected text
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end tell
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tell application "Internet Explorer"
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GetURL "http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term="; & t
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Activate
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end tell
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Try and do THAT in perl or a shell script. And I know that dict.pl
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*is* a perl script, OK?
You asked for it:
do shell script "curl
http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-
bin/dict.pl?term=dichotomy"
I could decode the HTML as well and just return the resultItemStart
portions of the page. I really think that the AS access to the shell is
the single most significant advance in the history of AS.
-Reinhold