Re: How to close finder window
Re: How to close finder window
- Subject: Re: How to close finder window
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:18:24 +0800
on 03/06/2005 08:05, Mark Pauley at email@hidden wrote:
> AppleScripts don't really know they can be run with arguments...
> But we're geeks and we want/need this stuff to happen.
> I have done this before by using AppleScript in a here-document in perl:
>
> ***
> #! /usr/bin/perl -w
>
> $windowName = $ARGV[0];
>
> my $appleScript = <<"END_S";
> tell application "Finder"
> set theWindows to (get every Finder window)
> repeat with eachWindow in theWindows
> if (target of eachWindow as text) begins with
> "$windowName" then
> close eachWindow
> end if
> end repeat
> end tell
> END_S
>
> my $returnVal;
> chomp($returnVal = `osascript -ss -e '$appleScript'`);
> print $returnVal, "\n";
>
> ***
>
> Bammo, close windows from the terminal!
>
> Unfortunately this requires forking a new process. I would recommend
> looking into using AppleEvents to do something like this, AppleScript
> is just an easy way to send AppleEvents.
The osascript command in Mac OS X 10.4 can now handle arguments.
>From the man page:
Any arguments following the script will be passed as a list of strings to
the direct parameter of the ``run'' handler. For example:
a.scpt:
on run argv
return "hello, " & item 1 of argv & "."
end run
% osascript a.scpt world
hello, world.
--
Matthew Smith
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