Re: Cron & Progress Bar in OSX

[James Reynolds]

At 9:00 am -0600 13/10/03, James Reynolds wrote:

 This is one way to do it:

 on open these_items
 	repeat with this_item in these_items
 		set the_path to POSIX path of this_item
 		set result to do shell script 
"/Users/james/backatcha.pl \"" & the_path & "\""
This will break if there happens to be a " in the pathname.  'quoted 
form of' POSIX path of... takes care of all that.

What is needed is "perl some.pl f1 f2 f3 f4" so only one Apple event 
is needed; the file list can be build as a string and passed with a 
single do shell script call.

JD
How about:

on open these_items
        set args to ""
        repeat with this_item in these_items
                set args to args & quoted form of POSIX path of this_item & " "
        end repeat
        set result to do shell script "/Users/james/backatcha.pl " & args
        display dialog result
end open
Save as an application.

And /Users/james/backatcha.pl is:

#!/usr/bin/perl

foreach $i (@ARGV) {
  print "I got: $i\n";
}
--

Thanks,

James Reynolds
University of Utah
Student Computing Labs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
801-585-9811