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Re: Applescript Q: file specifications

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Applescript Q: file specifications
Date 2016-03-27 19:25 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2016-03-27, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> I take it that relative specification such as ../myfile.txt are also
> interpreted by bash and thus not available when accessing files outsde
> of bash ?

No, ../ works fine in AppleScript POSIX paths.

> googled for applescript write text file and first example: (and almost
> all examples).
>
>  set outputFile to ((("/Users/david/Desktop/") as string) &
> "LaunchAgent_Alert.txt") as file specification
>
> I can see reasons if you will translate a user's home directory and then
> add further specification to the full path. But all the examples I have
> seen break the directory and filename and assemble them as above even
> when they are constant strings.

That amounts to nothing more than personal taste.

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Applescript Q: file specifications JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-27 01:54 -0400
  Re: Applescript Q: file specifications dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-03-27 21:36 +1300
    Re: Applescript Q: file specifications JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-27 15:10 -0400
      Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-27 19:25 +0000
      Re: Applescript Q: file specifications dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-03-28 12:35 +1300
        Re: Applescript Q: file specifications JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-28 02:55 -0400
          Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-28 15:47 +0000
            Re: Applescript Q: file specifications JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-28 15:20 -0400
              Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-28 20:03 +0000
                Re: Applescript Q: file specifications JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-03-28 17:08 -0400
                Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-28 21:15 +0000
  Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-03-27 10:53 +0200
  Re: Applescript Q: file specifications Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-03-27 16:53 +0000

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