Re: Another shell script query
Re: Another shell script query
- Subject: Re: Another shell script query
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:47:09 -0700
On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 04:33 AM, Simon Kornblith (Mailing Lists)
wrote:
On 6/6/02 6:16 AM, "Charles Arthur" <email@hidden> wrote:
Obviously I'd be interested in the "other ways", just out of idle
curiosity. Simon's idea of error-trapping did seem the safest (in that
it
would catch dire fallovers) but "||" is very intriguing. ...
Any more sneaky Unix tricks like "||" welcome here, anyway.
Actually, the proper way to direct stderr to stdout would probably be
"curl
--help 2>&1", which simply directs stderr (file descriptor 2) to stdout
(file descriptor 1) without going through any additional applications.
True, but unrelated. curl --help writes everything to stdout; the
problem is that it returns a failure status and you have to either
suppress that in the shell script (as above) or deal with the error in
the AppleScript somehow.
One of my favorite sneaky UNIX tricks is the following...
-- Use << and a very large string...
That's a pretty good one, though I'd consider your delimiter excessively
paranoid. For all the details on file redirection stunts, including a
number of nifty tricks with "here documents", read the "Redirections"
section in the "sh" man page.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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