Re: do shell script & freeeeeze!
Re: do shell script & freeeeeze!
- Subject: Re: do shell script & freeeeeze!
- From: julifos <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:47:03 +0100
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On 25/2/03 21:23, "julifos" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I was looking a one-line script to check whether an item is a file or a
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> folder, then (if folder) list its contents.
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> set I_dont_know_if_is_folder to posix path of alias "HD:I am a file"
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> do shell script "cd '" & I_dont_know_if_is_folder & "'; ls -R"
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How about:
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set x to posix path of alias "HD:I am a file"
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do shell script "if [ -d " & x & " ]; then ls -R " & x & " ;fi"
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Literally "if x is a directory, list it recursively.
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HTH,
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Nigel
Cool thanx! Definitivelly, I must learn a bit of shell scripting ;-)
JJ
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