Upgrade to Leopard mostly smooth, but has small glitch

[Cameron Simpson]

On 08Mar2008 21:48, Bill Hernandez <ms at mac-specialist.com> wrote:
[...snip...]
| I should have used an existing shell script
| 
| # shell script : bh_open
| # ------------------------------------------------
| #!/bin/bash
| 
| if [ -a /Applications/BBEdit.app ]; then
| 	open -a /Applications/BBEdit.app $1
| elif [ -a ~/Applications/BBEdit.app ]; then
| 	open -a ~/Applications/BBEdit.app $1
| else
| 	open -a /Applications/TextEdit.app $1
| fi
| # ------------------------------------------------
[...snip...]

Surely this does not work? "-a" is "and". Do you mean "-f" or "-x" perhaps?

Personally I'd have just looped over the choices. And you should really
quote the $1, otherwise a filename with spaces in it will bite you one
day:

  #!/bin/sh
  for app in /Applications/BBEdit.app \
             $HOME/Applications/BBEdit.app \
             /Applications/TextEdit.app
  do
    [ -x "$app" ] && exec open -a "$app" "$1"
  done
  echo "$0: can't find something with which to open $1" >&2
  exit 1

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
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