Re: Fink and 'sh'
Re: Fink and 'sh'
- Subject: Re: Fink and 'sh'
- From: LuKreme <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:33:59 -0700
On Mar 22, 2004, at 12:41 AM, Martin Orpen wrote:
on 21/3/04 11:49 pm, Brennan at email@hidden wrote:
I just installed 'LAME' with Fink. It works fine from the Terminal
('tcsh') but Applescript 'do shell script' is complaining that sh
doesn't
know the command 'lame'.
Is there something special I should do to make this work?
As others have said already, you can specify the path to the command.
However, I'd like to know why the shell does not honour the users PATH?
Security? Let's say your script (or any script) did something using
sudo and an executable like... for example, ls.
Let's say someone put a fake ls in their path that simply echoed every
command passed to it to a log. Well, then they would have the sudo
password logged.
Supposedly bash is the shell default, but I can't get this from AS:
set myPath to do shell script "env | grep PATH"
-->"PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/martinorpen"
Anybody know where *this* path is specified?
/etc/profile or /etc/bashrc or /etc/csh.login?
That is the sh default path, and though sh and bash are equiv in most
systems with bash installed, they behave differently depending on how
they are invoked. Notice that the system paths are BEFORE the user's
home, thus ensuring that system executable like ls or find (or sudo)
are found BEFORE anything in the user's own home.
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