Re: tilde shortcut
Re: tilde shortcut
- Subject: Re: tilde shortcut
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 13:16:26 -0600
Emmanuel,
"a Smile / Satimage.osax / XMLLib.osax thing"?
As a long time user of Smile, where could one find out a little more?
On Oct 4, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Emmanuel LEVY wrote:
> Just for those interested, tilde is a shell thing, and also a Smile / Satimage.osax / XMLLib.osax thing, making things more portable with Smile.
>
> Emmanuel
>
> On Oct 4, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
>> Tilde is a shell thing, not an AppleScript thing. Inside a "do shell
>> script" command string, unquoted "~" by itself expands to the value of
>> the "HOME" environment variable, which the system initially sets to
>> the user's home directory, while ' "~"+ & username ' expands to the
>> home directory of the named user according to directory services.
>>
>> However, if you're in Applescript and want to access the current
>> user's Documents folder, just use
>>
>> "path to documents folder from user domain".
>>
>> which is an alias that you can then use anywhere aliases are accepted
>> in AS, or convert to a quoted-form POSIX path (which will be
>> pre-expanded, no tildes) to use in do shell script, or whatever.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Robert Poland <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to remember how the tilde (~) is used in Applescript to replace the HD/Users/Name to link to the Documents folder to make a script more universal.
>>>
>>> OR a link to where I can find this.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>>
>>> Robert Poland - Fort Collins, CO
>>>
>>>
>>>
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