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Re: Has anyone created a script for AD 2008 home and shares in OS X.5/6?
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Re: Has anyone created a script for AD 2008 home and shares in OS X.5/6?


  • Subject: Re: Has anyone created a script for AD 2008 home and shares in OS X.5/6?
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:36:02 -0400

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Jul 20, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
>> I'm confused by the use of AppleScript at all here.
>
> Obvious.

Sorry, what's obvious?  It's obvious that it's confusing?  Or I'm just
obviously confused?  My replacement script was obvious? :)

> For instance, Files.osax has: mkdir for mkdir, fileremove for rm, create
> symlink for ln, etc. Of course it's much faster (50 x for one test with
> fileremove vs do shell script rm) than do shell script "rm" since "do shell
> script has to open a Terminal", whatever it means.

Not a Terminal as in Terminal.app, but a lowercase "terminal", and
more specifically a pseudo-terminal - which is the underlying
mechanism behind console windows and Terminal windows and ssh sessions
and any other means of getting an interactive shell in front of a user
at a keyboard.  It all looks the same to the shell, but in this case
instead of a Terminal or ssh session with a human on the other end,
it's really just talking to AppleScript.

Also, if the timing test was of the form

repeat N times
    do shell script "rm ..."
end repeat

vs

repeat N times
    fileremove ...
end repeat

then I'd be interested in the results when you let the shell do the
looping as well, e.g.

do shell script "for (( i=0; i<" & N & "; ++i )); do rm ...; done"

I expect Files.osax will still win, but perhaps by a smaller margin.

Surprised there isn't a way to delete a file with Standard Additions.

--
Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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