Hi again Bill,
Following up on:
OSX comes with sqlite already installed. A guy named "Adam Bell"
wrote a sample AppleScript that showed how to access sqlite,
create, search, modify, etc from within AppleScript issuing the
commands directly to any one of the Unix Shells. Basically I can
have AppleScript open a shell, issue a numbe of commands, retrieve
the results, massage them, etc, and close the shell when done, or I
can run shell commands in the background so the user never sees the
shell itself, which is what I will be doing.
I assume you refer to the article at:
http://macscripter.net/articles/436_0_10_0_C/
Yes, that's an interesting article.
And as I mentioned in my previous post:
There's a good article on using "do shell script" (and issuing shell
commands in one line) at:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2065.html
SQLite is built in to Mac OS X (as of Mac OS X 10.4, maybe earlier).
It's used by a range of applications. For instance, in Apple's Mail
program, you can open the index file of all your mail as a standard
SQLite file via:
sqlite3 '~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index'
Does anyone know of other specific Mac files in SQLite format?
I've seen that Apple's developer framework for "Core Data" is also
based on SQLite, although it seems to add a layer of its own database
management system, obscuring direct SQL usage.
Since SQLite is so integrated into the Mac OS, I expected a more
direct way to access SQLite from AppleScript, than having to go via
"do shell script". I've been told by a few on this list, and seen for
myself, that accessing SQLite via the command line tool sqlite3 is
somewhat limited. And parsing the output can be relatively slow.
If anyone can show a better way to access an SQLite database file
from AppleScript, I'd love to see it. Please :-)
Thanks,
Tom
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