Re: Running VPN client...
Re: Running VPN client...
- Subject: Re: Running VPN client...
- From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:00:00 -0700
Emmanuel;
Ah, it's hard to be as obscure with AppleScript as with shell
scripts, but perhaps if we try harder...
- David Crowe :)
At 12:46 AM +0200 7/15/03, Emmanuel wrote:
At 9:50 AM -0700 14/07/03, Christopher Nebel wrote:
On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 8:49 PM, David Crowe wrote:
I'm not so sure that "&" works as described in the Technote.
The command:
do shell script "sleep 60; echo done >/tmp/junk.junk 2>&1 &"
locks up the AppleScript for 60 seconds (rotating lollipop mode),
just as if the "&" were not there. Perhaps, I thought, the "&"
only applies to the echo command, so I tried:
do shell script "(sleep 60; echo done >/tmp/junk.junk 2>&1) &"
and, it did the same thing.
So close, and yet so far. The output redirect only applies to the
command that it's next to, same as the "&", so adding the
parentheses as you did is not what you wanted -- it only redirects
the echo, so "do shell script" is going to wait on the sleep
command.
This returns immediately, and spits "done" into /tmp/junk.junk 20
seconds later:
do shell script "(sleep 60; echo done) >/tmp/junk.junk 2>&1 &"
phhhew
Thanks,
Emmanuel
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