Re: Do shell script: find . takes forever; throws permissions error
Re: Do shell script: find . takes forever; throws permissions error
- Subject: Re: Do shell script: find . takes forever; throws permissions error
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 05:55:14 +1000
On 03/04/2011, at 04:19 , Nathan Greenstein wrote:
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?
Do you realise that when the current directory for "do shell script" is / and not the same directory as when you are in Terminal? That final parameter is going to search the current directory and sub-directories. When you start at the root directory it's going to search everything on the hard drive.
Matthew Smith |
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