Re: Do shell script vs terminal discrepancy
Re: Do shell script vs terminal discrepancy
- Subject: Re: Do shell script vs terminal discrepancy
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:13:21 -0800
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:23:59 -0500, Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
wrote:
> Even if I call the tool with a full path this will always fail
> because it won't have access to the dependencies that imagemagik
> requires. It's not possible unless I could build IM in a default path
> for sh shell.
Paul - maybe I'm missing something here, but I have no issues with calling
shell tools by the full path, regardless of their dependencies... I script
ImageMagick this way all the time, along with exiftool, flac/lame, and
others. I always make it a habit to use the full path to any binary I call
unless it's a part of the stock OSX, and have yet to see an issue with the
called binary not being able to link to its dependencies.
> Oh well, it's not like I could distribute this script with an IM
> dependency anyway.
Well, a statically compiled ImageMagick convert binary (or the entire IM
package) could easily be bundled into a script bundle - done that before,
when I had no control over the execution environment.
> I spent 3 hours installing and updating macports,
> rubygems and IM just to get this to run properly in the terminal. And
> I certainly wouldn't think of futzing around with the install paths. I
> wonder if it is possible to somehow get the default sh shell paths to
> see the tools using symlinks and such. No, I'd probably just shoot
> myself in the foot with the terminal.
Symlinks would work fine if you really must have the binary available in
one of the standard paths - personally, I prefer to just call them by a
full path in do shell script to begin with.
- Roger
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