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Re: do shell vs. tell terminal
From:
Barry Wainwright <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:12:21 +0100
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On 10/6/06 08:34, "John Delacour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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

You don't need to say cd $HOME - just a plain 'cd' will do the same thing.

-- 
Barry

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