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Re: do shell vs. tell terminal
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John Delacour <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:34:36 +0100
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At 2:44 am +0200 10/6/06, Emmanuel wrote:

>...in do shell script is the root level of the startup disk, while 
>in Terminal it's your Home folder.
>
>In other words, for do shell script "myFile" is "Macintosh 
>HD:myFile" while in Terminal "myFile" is "Macintosh 
>HD:Users:[you]:myFile".
>
>So, scripts for one and for the other have to be different.

...unless one makes a habit of starting with "cd $HOME;"

      do shell script "echo $PWD;cd $HOME;echo $PWD;"

JD

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