Re: Setting up a cron job
Re: Setting up a cron job
- Subject: Re: Setting up a cron job
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:23:56 -0400
The command "/usr/bin/osascript -e" runs the shell tool "osascript"
which will take an AppleScript (or any other OSA-compliant script) and
execute it. The "-e" flag takes a string and treats it as an
AppleScript. You can use multiple "-e" flags for multi-line scripts.
For example, this AppleScript,
----
tell application "Finder"
display dialog "HI!"
end tell
----
could be run from the command line by doing:
/usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' -e 'display dialog
"HI!"' -e "end tell"
You could also save the script as a plain text file or a compiled
script and then have osascript execute the commands out of that. Say
you saved the script as a compiled script file to
~/Library/Scripts/thescript.scpt. You could then execute it from the
shell by doing:
/usr/bin/osascript ~/Library/Scripts/thescript.scpt
So basically osascript is the way to run an AppleScript from the
command line or through a shell tool such as cron. To find out more
about it type this from the command line:
man osascript
- Ken
On May 25, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Steven Valenti wrote:
CronniX looked fairly simple so I gave it a try. I found an example
that Sal Soghoian has at <http://www.koch-schmidt.de/cronnix/> and
this worked for me. I set up the command the same way for my back up
script ... /usr/bin/osascript -e 'run script alias ((path to
scripts folder from user domain as string) & "BackUp Script.scpt")'
Can someone explain what "/usr/bin/osascript -e" does? Is there any
other way to word this command?
Sorry if this is a simple question. Just want to know why I'm putting
this in front of my path to script.
On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 11:18 AM, de Runtz, Lars wrote:
crontab -u <user> -e
Then you enter arguments for minute hour day month weekday
path/shellscript, example:
0 * * * * /Users/user/hourlyscript
would run every hour.
look in the man page, or google "crontab"
-Lars DeRuntz
SalesLink
Newark, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Valenti [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 1:12 PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Setting up a cron job
I would like to schedule a back-up script to run weekdays starting at
9 PM. I have never set up a cron job before. I understand how the
daily/weekly/monthly/ect...... is organized. Looking in terminal I can
see Norton software has already put some tasks in the Users crontab,
but how now do I open this in Pico to edit it? If I can edit it, can I
just type a path, under the command, to an applescript compiled file
anywhere on the drive. Do I need to set the computer to never go to
sleep or is there a way to wake it before cron is run? If cron is all
I
need I would prefer learning rather then getting other software to do
this job. Does anyone know of sites that could give me more
information
to get started?
Thanks
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