Re: "cd " and "tail -f" on a file
Re: "cd " and "tail -f" on a file
- Subject: Re: "cd " and "tail -f" on a file
- From: Todd Reid <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:22:07 -0700
Andrew,
First of all, thank you! I'm getting closer, but not quite there yet.
Given this:
set x to quoted form of POSIX path of (alias "Cymbal of
Desire:Users:treid:DailyBuilds:2003-03-14_build1428 English:AppName:AppName
Application Support:Appname Engine:logs:")
tell application "Terminal"
do script "cd " & x
end tell
I get this in the Terminal:
[Cymbal-of-Desire:~] treid% '/Users/treid/DailyBuilds/2003-03-14_build1428
English/AppName/AppName Application Support/AppName Engine/logs/'
/Users/treid/DailyBuilds/2003-03-14_build1428 English/AppName/AppName
Application Support/AppName Engine/logs/: Permission denied.
[Cymbal-of-Desire:~] treid%
This is in my home folder, so I don't think permissions are really an issue.
I don't see the "cd " in the Terminal output...is something going wrong
there? I know without issuing a "cd " command, I WILL get a permissions
denied error returned.
Thanks,
Todd
On 3/17/03 7:56 AM, "Andrew Oliver" <email@hidden> wrote:
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A couple of points to note:
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Since the path name contains spaces, you need to use 'quoted form of POSIX
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path' to get a shell-safe version of the path suitable for using in a shell.
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As it stands, you're trying to run:
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cd Cymbal of Desire/Users/blahblahblah
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Whereas you need to:
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cd Cymbal\ of\ Desire/Users/blahblahblah
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'quoted form of' will perform this translation for you.
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Second, although you're in a 'tell application "Terminal"' block, you're
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using 'do shell script' which is a standard addition. Therefore the command
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will execute in a new background shell, not in the terminal.
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Terminal.app's command for running a shell script/command is "do script"
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Andrew
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:)
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On 3/17/03 6:45 AM, "Todd Reid" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Andrew,
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> Thanks for your input...yeah, I know that I can tail the output to a
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> variable (although don't really need to...I'll just read the output of the
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> file being tailed in the Terminal), but the trouble I'm running into is with
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> the path contruction.
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> Here's where I'm at currently:
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> tell application "Terminal"
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> set x to POSIX path of (alias "Cymbal of
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> Desire:Users:treid:DailyBuilds:2003-03-14_build1428 English:AppName:AppName
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> Application Support:AppName Engine:logs:")
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> do shell script "cd " & x
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> end tell
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> Running this returns the error "Terminal got an error: An error of type 1
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> has occurred."
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> Any ideas?
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> Many thanks,
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> Todd
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> On 3/17/03 7:16 AM, "Andrew Oliver" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> You mean like:
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>> tell application "Terminal"
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>> do script "cd /some/path; tail filename.txt"
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>> end tell
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>> Presumably you do realize that you can:
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>> set someVar to do shell script "cd /some/path/; tail filename.txt"
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>> And read the tail output into an AppleScript variable, right?
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>> Andrew
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>> :)
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>> On 3/17/03 6:06 AM, "Todd Reid" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> I9m wondering if anyone can assist me with a scripting need. I need to (via
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>>> applescript, preferably) change directory and then tail a file in the
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>>> Terminal.
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>>> Any help is greatly appreciated...
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>>> Todd
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