Re: alias inside script bundle?
Re: alias inside script bundle?
- Subject: Re: alias inside script bundle?
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 14:53:00 +0200
Le 18 mai 2012 à 13:40, Jim Weisbin a écrit :
> I have some scripts saved as apps that use the open source sound utility "sox". I store an executable version of "sox" inside the script bundle and access it using "path to me". Then I construct do shell scripts which use it to process audio files in various ways.
>
> The quirky thing about "sox" though, is that certain functions are only accessible if you invoke the program with a different name. For example, if you want to get info about the file, such as it's duration, you have to invoke it as "soxi -D" instead of "sox -D". This is done using the alias soxi to point to sox (if you install sox using Macports or compile from source, it will install the necessary aliases in /usr/sbin).
Hello Jim,
I guess those files aren't aliases, but symbolic links.
To be sure, could you run the following in Terminal.app:
ls -al /usr/bin/sox*
and show us the output?
> I don't want to have to install sox on all my users' computers, I want it to be portable, so that's why I store sox in the script bundle instead. The question is, how do I store an alias "soxi" in the bundle? It seems to me that, if I make an alias when I compile the script, it will depend on "path to me", and therefore not be valid for any other machine.
>
> Is there a way around this?
Should be feasible. ;-)
Could you describe us the structure you are envisioning for you script bundle, with the precise location of sox and its various siblings?
Axel
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