Hi Charlie
Ah, yes, apologies I didn't say -- applescript (the script was
appended). Unfortunately my knowledge of perl consists of peering at
what you wrote and thinking 'wow'.
And given how poor I am at Applescript, I don't think you want me to
learn perl...;)
On 23 May 2014, at 0:28, Charlie Garrison wrote:
4) (*this is the bit I can't get to work*) The script checks whether a
file already exists -- I don't want to overwrite anything that exists
by mistake.
You don't say what sort of script, or if you did I missed it. But in
shell and perl, the idea is the same, you are doing a 'file test'. In
perl it would be something like:
if (! -e $path_var) { # does file exist
# create file
}
## or this if perms are an issue
if (! -r $path_var) { # can I read a file
# create file
}
There is similar syntax for shell commands.
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