Re: do shell script modifies alias path
Re: do shell script modifies alias path
- Subject: Re: do shell script modifies alias path
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:17:03 +1100
On 3/3/04 8:57 PM, "Malcolm Fitzgerald" <email@hidden> wrote:
Would someone explain this to me please.
set f to (choose file)
--> alias
"Hogg:Users:malcolm:Documents:ASA:web:logs ...
...snip...
"/Users/malcolm/Documents/ASA/web/logs/error/2004/03-Mar/error_log.2.gz"
why does the do shell script step alter the variable f?
Weeks ago, at 9:22 PM -0800 3/3/04, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
Does the original file still exist after gunzipping it (whatever that may
be)?
No. The original no longer exists. The unzipped file sits in its place.
I should say that I've avoided the problem by changing the alias to a string.
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