Comments on: Making the Mac OS X bash shell alias and symlink agnostic http://theapotek.com/2006/12/01/making-the-mac-os-x-bash-shell-alias-and-symlink-agnostic/ Web consulting and programming in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, networking and logistics consulting. Sat, 5 Jul 2008 00:59:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Avi http://theapotek.com/2006/12/01/making-the-mac-os-x-bash-shell-alias-and-symlink-agnostic/#comment-123 Avi Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:21:16 +0000 http://theapotek.com/2006/12/01/making-the-mac-os-x-bash-shell-alias-and-symlink-agnostic/#comment-123 Brilliant! Brilliant!

]]> By: youROCK http://theapotek.com/2006/12/01/making-the-mac-os-x-bash-shell-alias-and-symlink-agnostic/#comment-2395 youROCK Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:00:53 +0000 http://theapotek.com/2006/12/01/making-the-mac-os-x-bash-shell-alias-and-symlink-agnostic/#comment-2395 Under my Leopard, I replaced if the kind of theItem is "alias" then get the posix path of ((original item of theItem) as text) end if with only get the posix path of ((original item of theItem) as text) and everything began to work [Thanks! If I ever upgrade to Leopard, I'll be sure to post an updated version of the script. Thanks for your help. --Kristofer] Under my Leopard, I replaced

if the kind of theItem is “alias” then
get the posix path of ((original item of theItem) as text)
end if

with only

get the posix path of ((original item of theItem) as text)

and everything began to work

[Thanks! If I ever upgrade to Leopard, I’ll be sure to post an updated version of the script. Thanks for your help. –Kristofer]

]]> By: George O'Connor http://theapotek.com/2006/12/01/making-the-mac-os-x-bash-shell-alias-and-symlink-agnostic/#comment-2839 George O'Connor Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:40:39 +0000 http://theapotek.com/2006/12/01/making-the-mac-os-x-bash-shell-alias-and-symlink-agnostic/#comment-2839 Now all I need is a command-line method of creating a Finder alias. Any ideas? Now all I need is a command-line method of creating a Finder alias. Any ideas?

]]> By: George O'Connor http://theapotek.com/2006/12/01/making-the-mac-os-x-bash-shell-alias-and-symlink-agnostic/#comment-2843 George O'Connor Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:04:57 +0000 http://theapotek.com/2006/12/01/making-the-mac-os-x-bash-shell-alias-and-symlink-agnostic/#comment-2843 Ah, the power of Google: How to create a Finder alias from shell script? http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=464423 [Hey, looks like you answered your own question. Thanks for coming back and posting. --Kristofer] Ah, the power of Google:

How to create a Finder alias from shell script?

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=464423

[Hey, looks like you answered your own question. Thanks for coming back and posting.
–Kristofer]

]]> By: alan gold http://theapotek.com/2006/12/01/making-the-mac-os-x-bash-shell-alias-and-symlink-agnostic/#comment-8017 alan gold Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:24:10 +0000 http://theapotek.com/2006/12/01/making-the-mac-os-x-bash-shell-alias-and-symlink-agnostic/#comment-8017 Is there an explanation of the 3 other choices in APPLEJACK and APPLEJACK AUTO written for me, an incompetent person? Thank you for APPLEJACK. [ None that I know of besides what's in the ReadMe file. If you can improve it, or have clear and concrete suggestions for doing so, I'd love to hear them/read them. Thanks! --K ] Is there an explanation of the 3 other choices in APPLEJACK and APPLEJACK AUTO written for me, an incompetent person?
Thank you for APPLEJACK.

[ None that I know of besides what’s in the ReadMe file. If you can improve it, or have clear and concrete suggestions for doing so, I’d love to hear them/read them. Thanks! –K ]

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