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 & "\""
display dialog result
end repeat
end open
Save as an application.
And /Users/james/backatcha.pl is:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "I got: $ARGV[0]";
Thank you very much for that suggestion -- it is just the sort of thing I was hoping for.
But I have a bug somewhere -- just a simple AS
do shell script "/Users/alanfry/Desktop/backatcha.pl"
results in the error:
...backatcha.pl:perl:bad interpreter:Permission denied
The script runs fine from the Terminal with the command 'perl' however. What am I missing?
Alan
I'm not sure. You might try putting the exact Terminal command inside of the do shell script command, like this:
do shell script "perl /Users/alanfry/Desktop/backatcha.pl"
or you might make the file /Users/alanfry/Desktop/backatcha.pl executable like this:
chmod u+x /Users/alanfry/Desktop/backatcha.pl
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Thanks,
James Reynolds University of Utah Student Computing Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED] 801-585-9811
