Re: Packages(.app) - open app folder script
Re: Packages(.app) - open app folder script
- Subject: Re: Packages(.app) - open app folder script
- From: Mike Solin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:38:01 -0500
I strongly recommend against doing this. If your package is deployed at the login window, when there is no user logged in, this can cause unexpected behavior.
Mike
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> On Mar 3, 2017, at 8:33 PM, Stephen Kay <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'm replacing a MindVision VISE X installer with Packages...
>
> My (ancient) app is installed in a folder in the /Applications directory
> (I know, this is not the ideal way) but in any case, it was a simple task
> in VISE to specify that the app folder be opened after installation.
>
> I gather that with Packages you would do this via a Post-installation
> shell script on the application's package.
>
> I'm not very skilled with shell scripts, can any of you geniuses share how
> to find the folder (when you don't know for sure where it might be
> installed) and pass the result to the 'open' command?
>
> Thanks,
> - Stephen
>
>
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