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AppleScripting SITE CHMOD 755 with filename variable (9 posts)
- Started 21 years ago by DougAdams
- Latest reply 21 years ago from DougAdams
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DougAdams Member
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Jim Matthews Administrator
How about:
send to transfer window 1 ftp command ("SITE CHMOD 755 " & my_cgi.cgi)
where my_cgi.cgi is a variable holding the name of the CGI. The ampersand (&) tells AppleScript to concatenate the two strings. I've changed the curly braces to parentheses; curly braces indicate a list, which is unnecessary since you're only sending one command.
Let me know if that does not work,
Jim Matthews
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DougAdams Member
Hello Jim,
Well, I got <i>this</i> to work:
tell application "Fetch 4.0.1"
set my_file to "my_cgi.cgi"
send to transfer window 1 ftp command ("SITE CHMOD 755 " & my_file)
end tellExplicitly declaring the my_file variable works.
However I am using a list garnered from list folder. The strings are, of course, the names of the files in my <i>local</i> cgi-local folder. After determining if the files have been recently updated, those files are sent by Fetch to my server's cgi-local folder and then I do this (within a Fetch tell statement):
try
send to transfer window 1 ftp command ("SITE CHMOD 755 " & my_cgi)
on error errMs from obj1 to newClass partial result PR
log {errMs, obj1, newClass, PR}
end tryHere is the logged error from Event Log:
(*Fetch 4.0.1 got an error: A descriptor type mismatch occurred., «script», item,*)
I'm stumped. The same my_cgi variable is used to create the item in the "put into" routine, and files xfer fine.
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Jim Matthews Administrator
I wonder if the my_cgi variable is a reference to the local file, in which case you'd want to use (name of my_cgi) rather than just my_cgi.
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks -
DougAdams Member
No, it's from the result of list folder, which returns the names of the files as Unicode text. I've also tried coercing to strings and still no luck.
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Jim Matthews Administrator
Fetch 4.0.2 should be able to deal with Unicode strings, so you might try the public beta of 4.0.2 that I expect to release in the next few days.
Thanks,
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks -
DougAdams Member
Thanks for your kind attention to this dilemma. I will look for the beta!
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Jim Matthews Administrator
The beta is now available at:
http://getfetch4.com/Fetch_4.0.2b1.sit
Could you give it a try and let me know if the problem is still there?
Thanks,
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks -
DougAdams Member
Success!
Works like a charm. This is how I wrote it in the script:
send to transfer window 1 ftp command ("SITE CHMOD 755 " & a_new_file)
a_new_file is loaded each repeat loop with the next item from the result of the list folder command -- no coerce necessary.
Works just as I envisioned -- and as you did, I'm sure. Thanks so much for your help.
Tomorrow I'm wearing my Fetch Softworks t-shirt to work! :)
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Hello Again,
I've written an AppleScript that will upload text cgi's to my cgi-bin.
My trouble is that I can't seem to do this:
send to transfer window 1 ftp command {"SITE CHMOD 755 " my_cgi.cgi}
...where my_cgi.cgi contains the name of the file as a string.
This is from Event Log:
put into transfer window 1 item alias "Mac OS X:Users:myname:Sites:cgi-local:movefilesfold.cgi" format Automatic without uniquename
send to transfer window 1 ftp command {"SITE CHMOD 755 movefilesfold.cgi"}
display dialog "Fetch 4.0.1 got an error: A descriptor type mismatch occurred."
As you can see, the filename is correct (the statement in the script uses the variable).
I must be doing something wrong with the syntax, but I'm not sure what.
I have no trouble setting permissions "by hand"; I got the syntax by recording it as such.
Your assistance is greatly appreciated, as always.
Doug
Posted 21 years ago #