[wellylug] AppleScripting

[Ian Sterling]

I know this might be an inappropriate answer or suggestion, but have
you tried just doing some perl or shell scripting for this?

Oh wait, somebody suggested this already... ;)

You might try looking up http://www.perlmonks.org/ for some pointers
if you don't have a perl book handy...

--Ian...

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:57:01 +1200, Gordon Paynter <lists at paynter.info> wrote:
> Warning: completely off-topic advice follows.
> 
> > >Does anyone know anything about AppleScripting.
> > >
> > >I need to write a script that copies contents of certain folders to a
> > >external firewire/usb drive.
> 
> Assuming you're using a version of MacOS X that supports AppleScript Recording
> (e.g. version 10.3, or version <= 8, not sure about others) the best way for
> you to write this script is probably to go to the "Script Editor" program (on
> MacOS X 10.3, it is in Applications/AppleScript), then press the "Record"
> button, then go to the Finder and perform the actions that you want your
> script to do by hand, then go back to the Script editor and press the "Stop
> Recording" button.
> 
> The script will appear in the editor window.  You can edit it by hand to
> remove any mistakes you made and clean it up. Once you see the syntax, it is
> pretty trivial to figure out how to edit it. If you need more complexity that
> that (e.g. variables) then you should probably RTFM.
> 
> If you have other questions, mail me off-list.  I haven't used AppleScript
> since MacOS 8 though.
> 
> Gordon
> 
> 
> 
> 
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