Is this in Windows or Mac? Im Mac to get usage for a shell command you have to
preface it with man. I think it's short for manual. This only works if whatever
installed the command in the shell also installed a man page.
Bob
On Oct 28, 2011, at 7:06 AM, Warren Samples wrote:
> On 10/28/2011 11:52 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>> While trying to get just a bit comfortable with a command-line interface, I
>> started Terminal on Mac OSX Lion and eventually got a command to work (after
>> finding out how to cope with spaces in file and folder names). I put the
>> same thing in an LC 'shell' command and got a runtime error (Handler: can't
>> find handler). I guess this is because in the Terminal context, the shell
>> recognised the program I was calling ('convert' - it's dear old ImageMagick)
>> but within my prog and the LS IDE it didn't. What do I need to do to get
>> 'my' shell to be able to invoke the same apps that the raw terminal
>> interface can? My guess is that it's something to do with a context variable
>> like LS's defaultFolder, but I just don't know how to get there. Can anyone
>> explain?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Graham
>>
>
>
> Paste this in the message box:
>
> put shell("convert")
>
> and see what happens. You should get usage information from ImageMagick.
>
> To add a path to the input and output files inside the quoted shell command
> try surrounding the paths with single quotes.
>
> Warren
>
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