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 > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> 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
