Hi, Thanks for the tips. I am afraid I don't know about shell and chmod. Sorry for being so clueless. Any pointers are as usually very appreciated. Take care,
Ioana On Nov 30, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > You could just do the script in the shell as well and skip automater. Just > put each command line by line in a text file and then modify the text file to > be executable with > > chmod a+x > > after that you can just run that text file and it will execute all the > commands inside as though you had typed them. I often use this for repetitive > tasks and just name the file "g" for "Go". One tricky bit is the shell will > look in certain places (directory paths) for files to run and often times > this is not your present directory. So unless I add the present directory > (usually denoted as a dot or period) to my path I have to specify it when > doing my "g" command: > > ./g > > If you want I can give you the commands to add . to your path and avoid the > ./ nonsense. > > CB > > On 11/29/11 8:52 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I would love to create a script or what ever that I can call up to perform a >> series of terminal commands. I had a look at the automator and found a >> record option to type in all the steps. I performed the actions but when I >> tried to run the action got an error. I suspect that the key sequence goes >> to fast since it is saying that terminal is not running when it was expected >> to. >> Any ideas how to do this or where to look for prewritten scripts I can >> modify? >> Is the script editor a better option than automator? >> >> I have no formal scripting experience but have read and written jaws scripts >> using their manual but really nothing fancy. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >> Ioana >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
