At 00:16 +0100 10/14/03, Alan Fry wrote: > do shell script "/Users/alanfry/Desktop/backatcha.pl" >results in the error: > ...backatcha.pl:perl:bad interpreter:Permission denied
do shell script is misnamed as are a lot of other commands in AppleScript. What it really means is Tell the OS to execute something that has been flagged as executable by setting the x bit in its permissions for the user who is making the request. It doesn't matter whether the file pointed to is a shell script or not though AppleScript does invoke the bash shell to manage the execution and can accept bash commands directly. Compiled C code and perl scripts with a #! line are equally executable but you must set that x bit. The failure you report is that you didn't have execute permission. Terminal is the easy way. The command is chmod 777 path_to_file which actually opens it up completely to anyone. The rightmost bit in each octal digit is the x bit for user, group, and world. man chmod for more. It would be nice if Finder allowed access to the x bit but it doesn't. It would be nice if Finder would execute a double-clicked file with the x bit set but. . . Steve? Is it possible to write an AppleScript to do that? -- --> There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't <--
