Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 6, Issue 558

Subject: Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 6, Issue 558
From: Adam Merrifield <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:45:53 -0400
The only options via the web to change my password, unsubscribe or
remind me of my password.

And via ...request@... mailer I can issue commands to get my info,
change password etc... but to actual change my digest|nodigest
settings I would have to actually unsubscribe and resubscribe with the
new options. If I simply send the command:

subscribe mypasswd nodigest address=email@hidden

Then I get the response that I am already subscribed.

Any ideas?

Adam

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>   1. Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
>      (Mark J. Reed)
>   2. Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
>      (Michelle Steiner)
>   3. Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
>      (Cerciello)
>   4. Change subscription to nodigest (Adam Merrifield)
>   5. Fwd: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
>      (Mark J. Reed)
>   6. Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
>      (Axel Luttgens)
>   7. Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
>      (Axel Luttgens)
>   8. Re: Change subscription to nodigest (Axel Luttgens)
>   9. Re: Trouble with appearance preferences of System Events
>      (email@hidden)
>  10. Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
>      (Stockly, Ed)
>  11. Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
>      (Paul Berkowitz)
>  12. Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
>      (Paul Berkowitz)
>  13. Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
>      (Felix Peregrino)
>  14. Command-Tab key combination fails (Bert Groeneveld)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:13:07 -0400
> From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
> To: Cerciello <email@hidden>
> Cc: asu <email@hidden>
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> The & runs the two commands in parallel. To run them one at a time,
> use a semicolon instead (without the backslash; \; is part of the
> syntax of find -exec).
>
> On Thursday, October 29, 2009, Cerciello <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> yes Steve suggestion is working a part for the last line " & rm -rf __MACOSX; " which basically supposed to delete the __MACOSX folder created . . . I don't know why! and Axel is right with the "&" that precedes the "rm -rf __MACOSX" part; been wrong. So if I split the to line like this all work as expected:
>>
>> on run {input, parameters}
>>
>>  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā tell application "Finder"
>>  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā set this_path to the quoted form of the POSIX path of (insertion location as alias)
>>  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā end tell
>>
>>  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā tell application "Terminal"
>>  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā do shell script ("cd " & this_path & "; find . -exec unzip -o {} \\;")
>>  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā end tell
>>
>>  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā tell application "Terminal"
>>  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā do shell script ("cd " & this_path & "; rm -rf __MACOSX;")
>>  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā end tell
>>
>>  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā return input
>> end run
>>
>> Any suggestion on how to combine this 2 lines in one "do shell scrip" command?
>>
>> The idea to create this service is for unzipping large files downloaded from the net which often are splitted in hundreds of small zip files. Usually I will run the service on a folder on my desktop.
>>
>> Thanks allot to all for you help.
>>
>> On Oct 29, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le 28 oct. 2009 Ć  22:47, Cerciello a Ć©crit :
>>
>>
>> [...]
>>  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā do script "cd " & this_path & find . -exec unzip -o {} \; & rm -rf __MACOSX;
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Emmanuel and Steve already provided you with useful suggestions.
>> I still feel uncomfortable with the "&" that precedes the "rm -rf __MACOSX" part; what is it supposed to do here?
>> On the other hand, are you unzipping on a FAT volume? what's the provenance of the zipped files?
>> More generally, which command(s) exactly do you type in Terminal.app when unzipping by hand the files contained in a folder?
>>
>> Axel
>>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:45:21 -0700
> From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
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> On Oct 29, 2009, at 2:51 AM, Brian Christmas wrote:
>
>> try this....
>>
>> tell application "System Events"
>>       set p to properties
>>       set foo to screen edge of dock preferences of p
>> end tell
>
> Even better:
>
> tell application "System Events"
>        tell dock preferences
>                set foo to screen edge
>        end tell
> end tell
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> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:56:45 +0100
> From: Cerciello <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
> To: asu <email@hidden>
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> Smashing Axel
>
> do shell script ("cd " & this_path & "; find . -exec unzip -o {} \\;;
> rm -rf __MACOSX") works beautifully. One thing not really important is
> that if I see in the terminal what going on I see this:
>
> Pippos-MacBook-Pro:~ gc$ cd '/Users/gc/Desktop/untitled folder/';
> find . -exec unzip -o {} \;; rm -rf __MACOSX
> unzip:  cannot find or open ., ..zip or ..ZIP.
> Archive:  ./.DS_Store
>   End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is
> not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In
> the
>   latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found
> on the last disk(s) of this archive.
> unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of ./.DS_Store or
>         ./.DS_Store.zip, and cannot find ./.DS_Store.ZIP, period.
> Archive:  ./1.zip
>   inflating: UNIX Services Installer.pkg
>    creating: __MACOSX/
>   inflating: __MACOSX/._UNIX Services Installer.pkg
> Archive:  ./2.zip
> etc...
>
> Unfortunately the 2nd suggestion: do shell script ("cd " & this_path &
> "; unzip -o *.zip; rm -rf __MACOSX")  doesn't work, the terminal said:
>
> Last login: Thu Oct 29 13:48:48 on ttys000
> cd '/Users/gc/Desktop/untitled folder/'; unzip -o *.zip; rm -rf __MACOSX
> Pippos-MacBook-Pro:~ gc$ cd '/Users/gc/Desktop/untitled folder/';
> unzip -o *.zip; rm -rf __MACOSX
> Archive:  1.zip
> caution: filename not matched:  2.zip
> caution: filename not matched:  3.zip
> caution: filename not matched:  4.zip
> caution: filename not matched:  5.zip
> Pippos-MacBook-Pro:untitled folder gc$
>
> Would also be possible to move to the trash the .zip files after been
> unzipped?
>
> That would be great.
>
> Thank you
>
> On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Axel Luttgens wrote:
>
>> Le 29 oct. 2009 ą 12:46, Cerciello a écrit :
>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Any suggestion on how to combine this 2 lines in one "do shell
>>> scrip" command?
>>
>> Since the ";" expected by the find command is now correctly escaped,
>> just append your third shell command as usual:
>>
>>       do shell script ("cd " & this_path & "; find . -exec unzip -o {} \
>> \;; rm -rf __MACOSX")
>>
>>
>>> The idea to create this service is for unzipping large files
>>> downloaded from the net which often are splitted in hundreds of
>>> small zip files. Usually I will run the service on a folder on my
>>> desktop.
>>
>> Are all those zip files a the top-level of the enclosing folder?
>> In which case you could perhaps consider an even simpler way, such as:
>>
>>       do shell script ("cd " & this_path & "; unzip -o *.zip; rm -rf
>> __MACOSX")
>>
>> HTH,
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> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:06:18 -0400
> From: Adam Merrifield <email@hidden>
> Subject: Change subscription to nodigest
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> Hey all;
> I have been trying via the web, via the ...requests@... and even
> asking the list owner, but have been unable to find a way to change my
> subscription from digest to nodigest. How do I do this without going
> through the whole unsubscribe/subscribe process again?
>
> seyDoggy
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:45:24 -0400
> From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
> Subject: Fwd: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
> To: Scriptease <email@hidden>
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> Sorry, reply went only to cerciello the first time.
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> From: Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
> To: Cerciello <email@hidden>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Cerciello <email@hidden> wrote:
>> do shell script ("cd " & this_path & "; find . -exec unzip -o {} \\;
>
> That find command will run "unzip" on every single file and folder
> under this_path. Ā You might want to restrict it to just the things
> that are actually zip files, maybe with something like this:
>
> do shell script "cd " & this_path & "&& find . -name '*.zip' -exec
> unzip -o {} \; "
>
> (the && is safer than the ";" there - it means it won't do the find if
> the cd fails for some reason, like a typo in this_path...)
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:50:15 +0100
> From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
> To: asu <email@hidden>
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> Le 29 oct. 2009 ą 13:56, Cerciello a écrit :
>
>> Smashing Axel
>>
>> do shell script ("cd " & this_path & "; find . -exec unzip -o {} \
>> \;; rm -rf __MACOSX") works beautifully. One thing not really
>> important is that if I see in the terminal what going on I see this:
>>
>> Pippos-MacBook-Pro:~ gc$ cd '/Users/gc/Desktop/untitled folder/';
>> find . -exec unzip -o {} \;; rm -rf __MACOSX
>> unzip:  cannot find or open ., ..zip or ..ZIP.
>> Archive:  ./.DS_Store
>
> Yep: the Finder creates such hidden files as soon as one opens a
> directory...
>
>
>> [...]
>>
>> Unfortunately the 2nd suggestion: do shell script ("cd " & this_path
>> & "; unzip -o *.zip; rm -rf __MACOSX")  doesn't work, the terminal
>> said:
>>
>> [...]
>
> Sorry, I always forget that "unzip file1 file2" doesn't mean the same
> as "unzip file1; unzip file2". :-(
> One would thus need to loop over the file list:
>        for F in *.zip; do unzip -o "$F"; done
> (and take care to escape the quotes when making use of "do shell
> script")
>
> But then adding the name constraint to the "find" command doesn't
> appear much more complicated:
>        find . -name '*.zip' -exec unzip -o {} \;
> and could help to solve the above problem with non zip files.
>
>
>> Would also be possible to move to the trash the .zip files after
>> been unzipped?
>
> A quick way would be to add those files to the already existing "rm"
> command:
>        rm -rf __MACOSX *.zip
> But this assumes that the "cd" command has been successful!
>
> Summarizing:
>        do shell script ("cd '" & this_path & "' || exit 1; find . -name
> '*.zip' -exec unzip -o {} \\;; rm -rf __MACOSX *.zip")
> But please double-check...
>
> HTH,
> Axel
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:02:37 +0100
> From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
> To: asu <email@hidden>
> Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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>
> Le 28 oct. 2009 ą 22:47, Cerciello a écrit :
>
>> [...]
>>               do script "cd " & this_path & find . -exec unzip -o {} \; & rm -rf
>> __MACOSX;
>> [...]
>
> Back to another question: are you sure to have retrieved all wanted
> data, even after having deleted the __MACOSX directory? That is,
> aren't the archives you are unzipping liable to contain files with a
> resource fork or other vital metadata?
>
> Axel
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:22:39 +0100
> From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Change subscription to nodigest
> To: asu <email@hidden>
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> Le 29 oct. 2009 ą 14:06, Adam Merrifield a écrit :
>
>> Hey all;
>> I have been trying via the web, via the ...requests@... and even
>> asking the list owner, but have been unable to find a way to change my
>> subscription from digest to nodigest.
>
> Even through following link?
>
>
>
>> How do I do this without going
>> through the whole unsubscribe/subscribe process again?
>
>
> HTH,
> Axel
>
>
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:06:09 -0700
> From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Trouble with appearance preferences of System Events
> To: applescript-users-request <email@hidden>
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>
>>
>> You're using a variable I think, in the word 'automatic'. Enclose it
>> in quotes to make it a constant.
>
> tell application "System Events"
>        tell appearance preferences
>                font smoothing style
>  >>--Ā«constant ****Ė‡Ė‡Ė‡Ė‡Ā»
>        end tell
> end tell
>
> Hmm, automatic should be a an application keyword and it should work.
> This looks like a bug to me
>
> ES
>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:04:52 -0700
> From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Unzip multiple items Applescript-terminal syntax help!
> To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
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>>>tell application "Terminal"
>>>   do shell script ...
>>> end tell
>
> This is wrong, or at least inefficient.
>
> tell application "Terminal"
>   do script ...
> end tell
>
> Or
>
>  do shell script ...
>    --without using the terminal app
>
> "do shell script" is a Standard Additions OSAX command and probably should
> not be run within an application tell (even though it may work):
>
> set theResult to do shell script string ¬
>     as type class ¬
>     administrator privileges boolean ¬
>     user name string ¬
>     password string ¬
>     altering line endings boolean
>
> "do script" is a command that belongs to the Terminal.app application and
> must be run within a terminal shell
>
> tell application "Terminal"
>  do script string ¬
>       with command string ¬
>       in reference
> end tell
>
> They are not always interchangeable.
>
> HTH,
>
> ES
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:15:06 -0700
> From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
> To: AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
> Message-ID: <C70F29BA.790ED�email@hidden>
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>
> On 10/29/09 3:05 AM, "Axel Luttgens" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Not sure how you concluded that "location" is a relevant property.
>> Perhaps a matter of OS version? I'm here with 10.6.1, and "location"
>> doesn't appear amongst the dock preferences properties.
>
> Correct. In OS 10.5.8, 'location' appears among the properties of 'dock
> preferences'; it's an enumeration that can be bottom, left or right. When
> you ask for 'properties of dock preferences', it shows up, as it should in
> the properties record as location:bottom (or whatever).
>
> However, when you compile and run Steven's script, or the equivalent
>
> tell application "System Events"
>    get location of dock preferences
> end tell
>
> you get the error he got (Can't get location).
>
> Here's the reason: the raw code for 'location' property of dock preferences
> is «property dplo» . But when you type 'location of dock preferences' and
> compile, it actually compiles as «class loca», which is another 'location' -
> an element of 'network preferences object' class also in the System Events
> dictionary.
>
> It's a terminology conflict - a bug, and undoubtedly why the
> enumeration/property has been changed in OS 10.6 to 'screen edge'. (I'm not
> in 10.6 - for those of you who are, is it the same «property dplo» given a
> new keyword? I'm guessing it is.)
>
> For those in 10.5 (Steven), you can make the script work by typing «property
> dplo» (you type chevrons via option-\ and shift-option-\) and then Compile.
> It will compile to 'location', but any time you edit the script you'll have
> to replace it again with «property dplo».
>
> (I worked this out using the "Show Raw (Chevron) Syntax" menu items of View
> and Dictionary menus in Script Debugger. It's an invaluable tool to have in
> cases like this.)
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:25:46 -0700
> From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
> To: AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
> Message-ID: <C70F2C3A.790F4�email@hidden>
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> On 10/29/09 11:15 AM, I wrote:
>
>> Here's the reason: the raw code for 'location' property of dock preferences
>> is «property dplo» . But when you type 'location of dock preferences' and
>> compile, it actually compiles as «class loca», which is another 'location' -
>> an element of 'network preferences object' class also in the System Events
>> dictionary.
>>
>
> When a class and a property have the same keyword (here 'location') the
> class takes priority, which is why this is happening. (There are other cases
> where the class and property have the same raw code, and then you can
> resolve this problem by inserting 'its' before the property in a 'tell'
> block syntax, but that naturally doesn't work when it's a different raw
> code, as here. The script will still compile, substituting the wrong raw
> code of the class, not the property, and then errors on execution, even if
> using a tell block and 'its'.)
>
>
>> It's a terminology conflict - a bug, and undoubtedly why the
>> enumeration/property has been changed in OS 10.6 to 'screen edge'.
>
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 13
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:36:04 -0400
> From: Felix Peregrino <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Trouble with dock preferences of System Events
> To: applescript <email@hidden>
> Message-ID: <email@hidden>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2009, at 4:37 AM, Steven Audette wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I can see in the System Events dictionary that "location" is one of
> dock preferences properties, so I try this code:
>
> tell application "System Events"
>        tell dock preferences
>                set foo to location
>        end tell
> end tell
>
> I've been curious since I bought my first Mac in '88, will somebody
> tell me what the term "foo" represents?
> _
> felix
>
> http://applepandowdy.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
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> Message: 14
> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:54:39 +0100
> From: Bert Groeneveld <email@hidden>
> Subject: Command-Tab key combination fails
> To: Applescript Users <email@hidden>
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> Can I abuse the intelligence of the list to ask a non-applescript
> question just for once? Thanks! Here it is: Anybody any idea why the
> command-tab key (to switch between applications) stops working every
> now and then? The only remedy is to restart the Mac. It's a Mac Pro
> with the latest updates of version of 10.5.8. Already tried things
> like: Leopard Cache Cleaner, Zapping the PRAM, Deleting the Dock pref
> file, Disk warrior, changing the keyboard. Nothing helped so far.
>
> Bert.
>
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