On 08/10/2017 10:46 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
But I beg to be excused.
:D It's okay, Bob. Stay curious!
Warren
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Well it's case sensitive for one. echo $home produces a blank line. $HOME
produces my home folder. But I beg to be excused. I got into computers at first
because of the Macintosh. I cannot remember hundreds of commands along with
their varied arguments and flags and nuances. I will probably forg
On 08/10/2017 09:36 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
OH RIGHT. I thought you were talking about using this in the terminal. I know
about the LC environment variables.
Bob S
What does this do in Terminal?
'echo $HOME'
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OH RIGHT. I thought you were talking about using this in the terminal. I know
about the LC environment variables.
Bob S
> On Aug 9, 2017, at 18:51 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
> wrote:
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> @ bob
>
> try it in msg
>
> put $HOME
>
> see the dictionary for $
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@ bob
try it in msg
put $HOME
see the dictionary for $
but this is one more of those "Alice in wonderland features" of LC that you
will only discover after you fall into the hole (hehe) like the long owner of
the target
"why index"
to locate and find return the long paths to the file
On 10/08/2017 01:10, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
You should put quotes around the "*.livecode", because
find ~/ -iname "*.livecode" -print
will do what I think you want to do.
Whereas if you do,
find ~/ -iname *.livecode -print
the *.livecode is seen by, and interpreted by, she
You should put quotes around the "*.livecode", because
find ~/ -iname "*.livecode" -print
will do what I think you want to do.
Whereas if you do,
find ~/ -iname *.livecode -print
the *.livecode is seen by, and interpreted by, shell - and so expands
to the livecode files in your home direc
Not sure what $Home is. I didn't know you could refer to your home folder that
way. But keep in mind that you can change what Spotlight does and does not
index. you home folder typically is not a place you would create new folders
and files for. What would be the point to indexing it?
Bob S
I'm pretty much fed up with Spotlight.
On Linux apps I use Locate, which is really efficient.
but setting up and keep the locate dbase on mac is also frought with issues.
it will not index $Home
which is weird.
FIND is slower of course, but perfectly effective.
this:
find ~/ -iname *.liveco
