Re: Passing calls to an AS app via shell?
Re: Passing calls to an AS app via shell?
- Subject: Re: Passing calls to an AS app via shell?
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 18:59:50 +0100
on 8/10/04 6:47 pm, Johnny AppleScript at email@hidden wrote:
> I'm not the smartest apple on the tree, but I did say I tried all kinds of
> quoting, escaping, etc.; again, this only occurs on spaced names when '~' is
> used to enumerate the user path. If I coerce the full file path when the
> user path is involved, it (usually) works just fine. And it *ONLY* fails on
> the 'echo message >>' command (that I've found); every other *NIX command I
> use with '~' has no problems. Just echo. On all three 10.3.x machines within
> my reach and one 10.2.x box, as well.
What happens if you modify echo with a -n?
$ do shell script "echo -n hello >> ~/Temporary\\ Items/filename.txt"
Just a thought...
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Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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