Re: shell() and pdftotext
> Richard H. wrote: > Typing to Terminal „pdftotext“ I get a List with command-options. > With get shell(„pdftotext“) with and without quotes > I get the answer „/bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext: command not found“ > What is wrong? May you please help? (MacOS Catalina). You could add on startup /usr/local/bin to the LC environment variable $PATH: on startUp local ulb="/usr/local/bin" set itemdel to ":" if ulb is not among the items of $PATH then put ":" after $PATH end startUp ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: shell() and pdftotext
Shell() always uses the default folder path. Example (mac/Linux): Set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath(“home”) put shell(“ls”) Breakpoint Set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath(“documents”) put shell(“ls”) Breakpoint I put any non native shell commands I want into my engine path, especially for standalones. Sean Cole Pi Digital Prod Ltd > On 13 Jan 2020, at 18:25, doc hawk via use-livecode > wrote: > > To elaborate further, if you can use pdftotext from the command line, but > this is failing, it is because the path declared for your login shell is not > getting picked up, or a different shell is being used by livedcode. > > Come to think of it, I have *no* idea which shell livecode defaults to—I’d > assume the system default, which sometimes varies over versions of a > particular OS. > > So if you use tcsh, but your system defaults to bash, all of those > customizations and variables that apply at the command line may not come into > play. > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: shell() and pdftotext
To elaborate further, if you can use pdftotext from the command line, but this is failing, it is because the path declared for your login shell is not getting picked up, or a different shell is being used by livedcode. Come to think of it, I have *no* idea which shell livecode defaults to—I’d assume the system default, which sometimes varies over versions of a particular OS. So if you use tcsh, but your system defaults to bash, all of those customizations and variables that apply at the command line may not come into play. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: shell() and pdftotext
To find the full path, this may work - open Terminal and type: which pdftotext and it should display the path to the copy of pdftotext that the OS runs when you type the 'pdftotext' command. Phil Davis On 1/12/20 2:00 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: My guess is that shell can’t find your executable. Try using full paths. Thanks, Brian On Jan 12, 2020, 2:54 PM -0500, Hillen Richard via use-livecode , wrote: Hello, I want to extract .txt from a pdf-file using Livecode 9.5 on macOS Catalina. Therefore I installed from http://www.xpdfreader.com/ the xpdf-tools-mac-4.02 and using the Terminal with „pdftotext /Users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf“ I get a clean text-file inter.txt. Wonderful! So I hopefully wrote in Livecode: —— put "/users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf" into fn put "pdftotext " & fn into Kommando if there is not a file fn then answer „no SourceFile!" exit to top end if get shell(quote & Kommando & quote) answer it & return & the result —— But extracting doesn´t work and I get the answer: /bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext /users ……pdf: No such file or directory and the result ist 127. Typing to Terminal „pdftotext“ I get a List with command-options. With get shell(„pdftotext“) with and without quotes I get the answer „/bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext: command not found“ What is wrong? May you please help? Richard. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Phil Davis 503-307-4363 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: shell() and pdftotext
My guess is that shell can’t find your executable. Try using full paths. Thanks, Brian On Jan 12, 2020, 2:54 PM -0500, Hillen Richard via use-livecode , wrote: > Hello, > > I want to extract .txt from a pdf-file using Livecode 9.5 on macOS Catalina. > > Therefore I installed from http://www.xpdfreader.com/ > the xpdf-tools-mac-4.02 > and using the Terminal with „pdftotext /Users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf“ > I get a clean text-file inter.txt. Wonderful! > > So I hopefully wrote in Livecode: > > —— > put "/users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf" into fn > put "pdftotext " & fn into Kommando > > if there is not a file fn then > answer „no SourceFile!" > exit to top > end if > > get shell(quote & Kommando & quote) > > answer it & return & the result > —— > > But extracting doesn´t work and I get the answer: > > /bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext /users ……pdf: No such file or directory > > and the result ist 127. > > > > Typing to Terminal „pdftotext“ I get a List with command-options. > > With > get shell(„pdftotext“) with and without quotes > > I get the answer „/bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext: command not found“ > > > > What is wrong? May you please help? > > Richard. > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
shell() and pdftotext
Hello, I want to extract .txt from a pdf-file using Livecode 9.5 on macOS Catalina. Therefore I installed from http://www.xpdfreader.com/ the xpdf-tools-mac-4.02 and using the Terminal with „pdftotext /Users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf“ I get a clean text-file inter.txt. Wonderful! So I hopefully wrote in Livecode: —— put "/users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf" into fn put "pdftotext " & fn into Kommando if there is not a file fn then answer „no SourceFile!" exit to top end if get shell(quote & Kommando & quote) answer it & return & the result —— But extracting doesn´t work and I get the answer: /bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext /users ……pdf: No such file or directory and the result ist 127. Typing to Terminal „pdftotext“ I get a List with command-options. With get shell(„pdftotext“) with and without quotes I get the answer „/bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext: command not found“ What is wrong? May you please help? Richard. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
