Do shell script and special characters
Do shell script and special characters
- Subject: Do shell script and special characters
- From: Matthew Stuckwisch <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:46:29 -0500
I'm trying to work on an update checker for my AS Studio app, which is
localized to four different languages. Part of the info included is
what has changed. This, of course, is localized, which includes
characters with diacriticals. The problem I've run into is that trying
to get normal output from shell applications on this is difficult:
do shell script "cat foo.txt"
do shell script "curl
http://foo.bar.com/foo.txt";
Both of these error if the file contains any non-7 bit ASCII
characters. With cat, I can work around by using the -v option,
however, why should it be erroring without it? In the terminal it
doesn't error, it just replaces the special characters with a ? of
sorts. While CLI utilities that don't have an equivalent to -v of cat
can be worked around with "foo -bar > /tmp/foo.txt;cat -v
/tmp/foo.txt", it's not exactly the prettiest solution in the world.
Matthew Stuckwisch
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