Re: Shell-sandwich a file in 2 variable strings
Re: Shell-sandwich a file in 2 variable strings
- Subject: Re: Shell-sandwich a file in 2 variable strings
- From: Paul Strecker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:46:48 +1100
At 3:29 AM -0700 31/1/04, Gnarlodious wrote:
How would I prepend a variable string to a file then append a variable
string to the same file?
The closest I can get is
do shell script "echo " & quoted form of startHTML & " " & htmlFilePOSIX & "
" & quoted form of endHTML & ">" & iPathPOSIX
But in this case the path of htmlFile is written instead of the file's text.
Maybe a variation of "cat" will work here, or piped commands.
I would suggest something like this.
set prepend_text to "whatever"
set append_text to "whatever"
set main_text to (read file "path:to:file.html")
set new_text to prepend_text & main_text & append_text
then write it all back to a file using any of a whole variety of
write to file handlers.
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