From: "Chris Blouch"
To:
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: where to start i I want to automate terminal commands
In your utilities folder is a program called terminal which lets you
type commands in what is usually called a 'unix shell'. If you've use
Hi Chris,
Why is talking about the CLI off topic since the MAC is based upon Unix and
is the core of the OS.
Sean
- Original Message -
From: "Chris Blouch"
To:
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: where to start i I want to automate terminal commands
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with the Terminal. Rather you are using the Unix OS directly.
Looking forward to here from you.
Sean
- Original Message -
From: "Ioana Gandrabur"
To:
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: where to start i I want to automate terminal commands
Hi,
Thank
In your utilities folder is a program called terminal which lets you
type commands in what is usually called a 'unix shell'. If you've used
DOS or Unix it will be quite familiar. So everything I described is done
inside of terminal. You can do things like copy a file by typing
cp original_file
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
> p
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
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 seq
