Re: do shell script woes
Re: do shell script woes
- Subject: Re: do shell script woes
- From: Lorin Rivers <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:53:09 -0600
On Dec 24, 2003, at 9:21 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote:
This simple shell command works swimmingly from the command line in
Panther, yet does nothing when called from my AppleScript.
set this_path to "/Users/lrivers/Desktop/cabs/06369022.cab"
--try
do shell script "/sw/bin/cabextract " & this_path
Suggestions?
BTW, .cab files are Windows archive files, typically OS related or in
any case, coming from Microsoft. I wanted to write a little utility for
extracting them because MS provides quite a few Office templates in
that format. Alas...
Here's what I ended up doing. It was practically instantaneous. I'd
still like to understand why it doesn't work from do shell script, but
hey. The tech note practically says "don't expect do shell script to
work".
find + -exec is immensely powerful but so is dynamite...
(in the directory containing the .cab files)
sh> find . -name "*.cab" -exec cabextract -q {} \;
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