On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 04:05 AM, David Vaughan wrote:
Jan has jumped the gun slightly. You will have a problem if you are using
1.1.1. Shell commands in OS X are not supported before 1.5A7. You should
be OK on this soon.
When I first got Revolution I wrote this to the list. (That means tread
carefully.) It is a simple shell workaround and an example. It has a few
limitations but might work for ditto. I welcome fixes.
I know nothing about AppleScript, but with a tiny bit of fooling around I
came up with this:
function shellSH cmd
-- Sorry, no quote marks in cmd in this version
-- And shellCommand is ignored
put "do shell script" & quote & cmd & quote into s
do s as AppleScript
put result() into r
replace numToChar(13) with linefeed in r
return r
end shellSH
This uses sh and not tcsh that the Terminal program uses. There is
probably a way to do this with Terminal, but even those six lines of
AppleScript are beyond me until I get a reference.
Here is one way to ping, then:
function ping ip
return shellSH("/sbin/ping -c 1 " & ip) contains "1 packets received"
end ping
This takes over 10 seconds if the computer is not there. It returns
virtually immediately if it is. I tried -w, but it doesn't seem to work.
Dar Scott
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