Re: downloading a file into a folder (still)
Re: downloading a file into a folder (still)
- Subject: Re: downloading a file into a folder (still)
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:15:00 -0500
2 main problems that I see.
First of all you have your "quoted form of" statement in the wrong
place. It should be outside the "POSIX path of" statement.
Second you are using a POSIX-style path (the "/ "character) before you
convert the entire path to POSIX-style. Thus the / is interpreted as
part of the file name, not as part of the path. You need to use a
Mac-style path delimiter instead (a ":" character)
Here is a corrected snippet, I moved around some stuff for clarity.
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set this_URL to
"http://www.latimes.com/cgi-bin/litsoft/litsoft.pl/today.puz";
set destFolder to ((path to desktop) as string) & "Puzzles To Do:"
set myFileName to thisYear & "-" & thisMonthNumber & "-" & thisDay &
"-LATimes.puz"
do shell script ("curl " & this_URL & " -o " & quoted form of POSIX
path of (destFolder & myFileName))
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- Ken
On Feb 21, 2005, at 8:05 PM, Ed Rush wrote:
A week ago, I asked about downloading a file to a specific folder.
On 14 Feb 2005, at 11:30 AM, Emmanuel wrote:
..., I would trying adding "quoted form of " before "POSIX path".
On 14 Feb 2005, at 11:37 AM, Rob Stott wrote:
Probably the colon on the end of your folder name - a POSIX path uses
slashes, not colons.
I am now rid of the curl error, but I still can't get the file into
the folder.
On 16 Feb 2005, at 10:38 AM, Adam K. Wuellner wrote:
Put the path construction in parentheses?
Alas, that makes no difference. With or without the parentheses, I get
a file on the desktop named
Puzzles To Do/2005-02-21-LATimes.puz
I thought it was impossible to have a slash in the file name, but
there it is.
Here's my current code:
set this_URL to
"http://www.latimes.com/cgi-bin/litsoft/litsoft.pl/today.puz";
set destFolder to "Puzzles To Do/"
set myFileName to thisYear & "-" & thisMonthNumber & "-" & thisDay &
"-LATimes.puz"
do shell script ("curl " & this_URL & " -o " & POSIX path of (((path
to desktop) as string) & quoted form of destFolder & myFileName))
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