Re: Multiline commands in do shell script
Re: Multiline commands in do shell script
- Subject: Re: Multiline commands in do shell script
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:38:39 -0600
On 2/3/04 10:59 AM, "Hanaan Rosenthal" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Try to separate the different shell commands with a semicolon:
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do shell script"command 1;command 2"
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Hanaan
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> So I need to deal with a command that never exits, (mDNS to be precise)
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and
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> do shell script.
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> Because of the way mDNS works, even if I run it as this:
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> mDNS -B _ssh._tcp local. > ~/Desktop/mDNSService.txt &
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> I never return from the do shell script step. What I'd like to do is just
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> create a three - line shell script and run that, but have it live only in
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> the script itself...something like
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> do shell script "#!/bin/sh
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> mDNS -B _ssh._tcp local. > ~/Desktop/mDNSService.txt &
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> killall mDNS"
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> I know there's something stupid I'm missing here, but I can't quite figure
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Nope...command never executes.
john
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