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Jon Pugh <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:05:23 -0800
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At 11:08 AM -0800 3/23/06, Stockly, Ed wrote:
>I've been sending shell script commands to the terminal and executing them in a terminal window, which works like a charm, and gives me the added luxury of being able to test a command in the terminal and get the same results in a script. That doesn't always work with the do shell script command (for me, at least).

There are differences between the terminal shell and the "do shell script" shell.  Notably, none of your customizations are present, including your $PATH variable, so you need to spell out all paths and commands completely.

That's really the only issue I've encountered.

Jon

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