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On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:42, Tommy Bollman <email@hidden> wrote:

Hello.

Search for kdmiitem and spotlight in the archieve or at macscripter.net.
It is easy to use spotlights abilities from do shell script. -Providing that spotlight works and is
enabled for that directory.

hth

tommy
Den 2. apr. 2011 kl. 20.25 skrev André Renault:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> I believe that when you use Terminal, the shell is already logged into your account (gives the prompt). When using AppleScript, it creates a new shell that is not logged into your account.
>
> Furthermore, AppleScript takes a long time to do some stuff anyway.
>
> André
>
> On 2011-04-02, at 2:19 PM, Nathan Greenstein wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> When I run a script like the below from Terminal it is instant and successful.
>> find ~/Desktop .
>> Even though it returns a gazillion files, it's really fast.
>> But, when I run that from an AppleScript like below, it takes a very, very long time and eventually gives a permissions error.
>> do shell script "find ~/Desktop ."
>>
>> Can someone help me figure out what's going wrong and how to fix it?
>> Thanks!
>> --
>> Nathan Greenstein
>> email@hidden
>

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References:
	>Do shell script: find . takes forever; throws permissions error (From: Nathan Greenstein <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Do shell script: find . takes forever; throws permissions error (From: André Renault <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Do shell script: find . takes forever; throws permissions error (From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>)