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Re: Copy folder shell scripting
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Re: Copy folder shell scripting


  • Subject: Re: Copy folder shell scripting
  • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:36:13 -0700

On Apr 24, 2008, at 12:59 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote:

On Apr 24, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

You can put any kind of interpreter name after the #! and it will
work,. for instance

#!/usr/bin/osascript
path to me

works (at least on Leopard; a niggling memory is telling me that you
might have to add an option after the /osascript to get it to work on
earlier versions of OS X).

Actually, it just doesn't work in earlier versions. It's possible to fake it, though; here's one way:

#!/bin/sh
osascript - "$@" <<EOF
your script here
EOF

I tried that like this. I know this particular example is kinda going the
long way around but I'm just trying to see how it works. This is on 10.4.11.


#!/bin/sh
osascript - "$@" <<EOF
do shell script "ls"
EOF

And got this result in Terminal but I don't know what workspacegns means.

[ip133:~] bruce% /Users/bruce/Desktop/osaText.sh
workspacegns

It's an artifact of how "do shell script" returns its output -- it uses \r for line breaks, which means that in Terminal, all the lines print on top of each other, and you see a mish-mash of all of them. In the particular case of "do shell script", you can add "without altering line endings", or pipe everything through "tr \r \n".



--Chris Nebel AppleScript Engineering

P.S.: The '- "$@"' is to pass any parameters from the command line through to osascript. If you're not using parameters, then you don't need it.
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