On 2/18/04 7:36 AM -0700, Doug McNutt wrote on Re: [MacPerl] Do shell
script AppleScript impossible fr
>I haven't tried it but I am told that a #!/usr/bin/tcsh script can be made
>executable in the sense that Finder will run it on a double click or if
>it's placed in the startup area for a login.
>
>The procedure is something like:
>
>create a folder named thescript.app
>create a folder inside called content
>put the actual script inside content
>
>I'm not sure what has to be done with UNIX execute permission bits.
I suspect this is not quite right. To see if I could make something
work like this, however, I did a bit of experimenting.
I created a folder chain -
/Users/wump/Desktop/muck/thescript.app/Contents/MacOS/
using Finder. I did this because it mimics the typical .app arrangement.
Then I used a text editor -
ee /Users/wump/Desktop/muck/thescript.app/Contents/MacOS/thescript
(I like ee better than pico but it's probably not readily available to
casual Mac users - be nice if was, I think) to generate a text file that
contains -
#!/bin/sh
touch /Users/wump/fumbus
This basically just creates the file "fumbus" in my directory providing
evidence of real execution without requiring any STDIO (unless there was
an error - I didn't want Terminal to necessarily be involved in the
execution, if any). I then did -
chmod 777 /Users/wump/Desktop/muck/thescript.app/Contents/MacOS/thescript
which makes the file actual script fully executable, readable and writeable
by everybody.
To test this, I made sure that "fumbus" didn't exist in my home directory,
then double-clicked "muck" followed by double-clicking a folder looking
icon with the name "thescript" showing (GetInfo says it's really
thescript.app, of course). I got a nice set of expanding empty rectangles
and nothing else obvious. I then checked to see if I had a "fumbus" in
my home directory. Shar'nuff, thar 'twas!
More over, if you do it again, it's re-touched.
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Wump Research & Company
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