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Re: "cd " and "tail -f" on a file
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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:

> A couple of points to note:
>
> Since the path name contains spaces, you need to use 'quoted form of POSIX
> path' to get a shell-safe version of the path suitable for using in a shell.
> As it stands, you're trying to run:
>
> cd Cymbal of Desire/Users/blahblahblah
>
> Whereas you need to:
>
> cd Cymbal\ of\ Desire/Users/blahblahblah
>
> 'quoted form of' will perform this translation for you.
>
> Second, although you're in a 'tell application "Terminal"' block, you're
> using 'do shell script' which is a standard addition. Therefore the command
> will execute in a new background shell, not in the terminal.
> Terminal.app's command for running a shell script/command is "do script"
>
> Andrew
> :)
>
> On 3/17/03 6:45 AM, "Todd Reid" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Andrew,
>> Thanks for your input...yeah, I know that I can tail the output to a
>> variable (although don't really need to...I'll just read the output of the
>> file being tailed in the Terminal), but the trouble I'm running into is with
>> the path contruction.
>>
>> Here's where I'm at currently:
>>
>> tell application "Terminal"
>> set x to POSIX path of (alias "Cymbal of
>> Desire:Users:treid:DailyBuilds:2003-03-14_build1428 English:AppName:AppName
>> Application Support:AppName Engine:logs:")
>> do shell script "cd " & x
>> end tell
>>
>> Running this returns the error "Terminal got an error: An error of type 1
>> has occurred."
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Todd
>>
>> On 3/17/03 7:16 AM, "Andrew Oliver" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> You mean like:
>>>
>>> tell application "Terminal"
>>> do script "cd /some/path; tail filename.txt"
>>> end tell
>>>
>>>
>>> Presumably you do realize that you can:
>>>
>>> set someVar to do shell script "cd /some/path/; tail filename.txt"
>>>
>>> And read the tail output into an AppleScript variable, right?
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>> :)
>>>
>>> On 3/17/03 6:06 AM, "Todd Reid" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I9m wondering if anyone can assist me with a scripting need. I need to (via
>>>> applescript, preferably) change directory and then tail a file in the
>>>> Terminal.
>>>>
>>>> Any help is greatly appreciated...
>>>>
>>>> Todd
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Creo | Creative Software Group
>>>> todd reid | quality assurance engineer | +1.720.932.4718
>>>> email@hidden | http://www.creo.com/sixdegrees
>>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> todd reid | quality assurance engineer | +1.720.932.4718
>> email@hidden | http://www.creo.com/sixdegrees
>>
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>>
>>
>





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