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Hello Eric, On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 11:18 PM, Eric Schult wrote: > > I like Tanaka's for its ability to readFromFile in one line of code, > without > having to open for access and close access (and having to worry about > leaving > the file busy if there's an error before the close access line is > reached). > It's just a quibble, really; it's what I'm used to. Yes, I understand you. AppleScript's "open for access", "close access" are really cumbersome. > > The same argument for writeToFile in Tanaka's. It's just cleaner. AND > I'm > admittedly fretting the thousands of lines of code I'm going to have > to edit > in the absence of Tanaka's. Oh, well. I guess Open for Access it is. > > I kinda hoped somebody would chime in with the prospects of doing the > same > thing with command line scripting. I'm no UNIX geek or anything, but > what > little I've heard suggests a write to file command can be accomplished > in the > terminal. I just don't know the syntax. Is it truth or fiction that > command > line scripts like that offer exponentially better performance? > I don't know at all about performance issue, but it seems that shell scripts for reading from/writing to files are much easier than AppleScript. You would write something like: echo 'abcedfg' > ~/mydoc.txt to write "abcdefg" to the text file "mydoc.txt" in /User/[your_account]/ folder. And you would write: cat ~/mydoc.txt to read the contents of your "mydoc.txt" file. In AppleScript, that would be: do shell script "echo " & quoted form of your_text & " > " & quoted form of (POSIX path of your_file_path) and do shell script "cat " & quoted form of (POSIX path of your_file_path) ===== I may probably use these three sub-routines: on write_to_file(str, fpath) do shell script "echo " & quoted form of str & " > " & quoted form of (POSIX path of fpath) end write_to_file on append_to_file(str, fpath) do shell script "echo " & quoted form of str & " >> " & quoted form of (POSIX path of fpath) end append_to_file on read_from_file(fpath) return do shell script "cat " & quoted form of (POSIX path of fpath) end read_from_file Please try them... Best regards, Nobumi Iyanaga Tokyo, Japan