![]() To remove this limitation, purchase the full version either from Red Sweater directly or through the Mac App Store. Tip: Check out the OmniFocus AppleScript Directory for easy access to some of the best AppleScripts written for OmniFocus.Extremely complicated and inconsistent rules In Bash, exceptions are the rule, not even all being described by the main page. There are a grand total of 5 different ways of quoting, sometimes even when one does not want to, for instance in command substitutions. These are all based around preserving the literal meaning of every character, with an exception list. ![]() There is even an exception list to the exception list in 4 of the 5, regarding how the backslash behaves! The behavior of the backslash is also one of the quoting rules, so naturally, it also has an exception in how it works when it stands before a newline as compared to other characters. Bash has several layers of interpretations, all to be kept in mind: The ~ expands to the home of the current user. So if you store it in a variable, can you use it that way? Nope: tilde expansion comes before variable expansion. Aha, so that's how it works! Then, since applying quotation happens after redirections are set up, it must mean that redirecting within quotes works, right? Nope: there is an exception! If a redirection symbol is not quoted, quotation around the symbol is observed, but is not removed. So, since variable expansion also comes after setting up redirections, and no exceptions are described here in the man page, getting the name of a file from a variable and using it as a target should not work, right? No: redirection does not actually take place when the symbols are being read, the symbols are merely removed and are noted for later, right before when the actual command runs. Apart from 5 types of quotation, there are basically 2 quoting phases, 2 word splitting phases (with only one being controllable), and a tokenization phase on top of that. If you have a command, it could be an alias, a special built in, a non-special built in, a symbolic link to a file, a regular file, a function, with different rules regarding how they can be overridden, if redirection happens before or after arguments have been passed (what does "time my_command 2>&1 >log_file" do?), etc. This list is admittedly long, but it doesn't even scratch the surface of the bloat, complexity and inconsistencies of Bash. ![]() GP元 is not compatible with Apple's lawyers Apple, one of the largest distributors of UNIX systems, only ships an ancient version of bash that predates the iPhone. No one knows why as Apple hasn't said, but the version Apple includes in MacOS is from right before the license was updated to version 3 of the GNU GPL (General Public License). Other major companies (IBM, Microsoft) have had no problem shipping the latest version of bash, so it's unclear what Apple's lawyers are averse to. The GPL has always said that if you distributed a program, you granted everyone the right to use it freely. The biggest change in version 3 was the addition, ".and that includes software patents." This was necessary because back in 2006 Microsoft was demanding that any company that uses Linux pay them or get sued for infringing on their patents. Limitations: Free for up to 10 keyboard shortcuts.They even took some companies, like TomTom, to court. With the new, liberal evaluation terms in FastScripts 2.4, all of the old Lite functionality and much more is now included for free in the full version. Customers found it confusing to differentiate between the versions, and I found it tedious to artificially maintain two versions. Time-saving scripts run in the current application's context.Īn upgrade to the Apple Script Menu - a familiar design with many usability improvements and a refined UI.ĪppleScript, Perl, Automator workflows, even applications or documents are recognized and handled by FastScripts.Īuthor's Note: I have been thinking for some time of eliminating FastScripts Lite. You'll spend less time mousing and more time doing.Īvoid disruptive switches. Global or application-specific control at the tip of your fingers. FastScripts is the super-charged script utility for Mac OS X.
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