Perl question / Alias question

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DeadlyBreakfast

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jul 23, 2003

• #1

Ok, So im playing around with Perl. Ive made a quick little proggie. No problem. My question is , is there anyway to make an alias that will start the terminal then start the program for me?
Thanks!!

 

scan300

macrumors 6502

• Jul 23, 2003

• #2

Applescript can launch an app for you and run UNIX line commands using the "do script" command.

eg

Code:

tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script (your commands here)
end tell

 

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DeadlyBreakfast

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jul 23, 2003

• #3

Great!! Ill try it out ..Thanks!!

 

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DeadlyBreakfast

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jul 23, 2003

• #4

Ok that got me most of the way, I just need to figure out how to cd to my perl directory then execute the "perl conversion" command.

Thanks!!

 

Doctor Q

Administrator

Staff member

• Jul 23, 2003

• #5

If you want to use a sequence of Terminal commands, you can put them in a shell script file (e.g., file /Users/myname/myscript), give the file execute permission (with the command chmod ugo+x /Users/myname/myscript), and then have AppleScript invoke the script rather than invoking a single Terminal command.

--- Example ---

Applescript:
tell application "Terminal" to do script "/Users/myname/myscript"

File /Users/myname/myscript:
#! /bin/sh
cd /Users/myname/perlstuff
...perl conversion command...
...other commands...