In the old MacPerl days (pre-Mac OS X) we would put this at the top of
a script that expected command line arguments:
@ARGV = ("argument1", "argument2", "etc");
Pete
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:48:40 -0600, "Charles Albrecht"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Er, @ARGV, that is.
>
> -C
>
> At 8:43 AM -0600 9/5/2002, Charles Albrecht wrote:
> >More to the point,
> >
> > %ARGV
> >
> >-Charles
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >At 1:42 PM +0000 9/5/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>Well, you might call a script like this:
> >>
> >> >perl foo.pl file1 file2 file3
> >>
> >>where each argument to the script (in this case 3 files) is passed in
> >>to the script, separated by a space.
> >>
> >>If I created a DropScript out of my foo.pl, and dropped file1, file2,
> >>and file3 onto it, it would be just like typing the command above.
> >>
> >>
> >>Pete
> >>
> >>On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 20:37:20 +1000, "Shannon Murdoch"
> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >>> Hi Pete,
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately I'm not a command-line wiz <:(. Could you explain how
> >>> the
> >>> target file/directory parameters are usually passed to the script when
> >>> it IS
> >>> called from the command line?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> -Shannon
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 5/9/02 2:59 AM, in article
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> >>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > These are the notes I had on DropScript from April 23, 2002:
> >>> >
> >>> > In the old version of DropScript, it would run the script once for each
> >>> > file dropped on it. Now it takes all of the files dropped on it, and
> >>> > passes the list to DropScript, which is the way MacPerl droplets do it,
> >>> > or the way the command line does it...
> >>> >
> >>> > http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/software/
> >>> >
> >>> > I'm thinking it should take whatever you drop on it (file or folder)
> >>> > and pass it in just as if you called the script from the command
> >>> > line...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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