[headbirth]

So for a newbie, what's involved in creating a shellscript? Is it just placing your command in a text file and adding a .sh extension?

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by headbirth:
So for a newbie, what's involved in creating a shellscript? Is it just placing your command in a text file and adding a .sh extension?

Pretty much. A shell script is simply a file with executable permissions, some shell commands, and a "pound-bang" as the first line. The simplest shell script I can imagine is this:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

echo "hello"

Put that in a file with UNIX line endings, do a chmod +x on the file, and you have a shell script. Where the "echo" line is, replace that with whatever shell commands you wish to execute.

[headbirth]

looking to create this shellscript for stuffing and unstuffing operations on selected items in the Finder and then use something like platypus to make it an app and assign a key combination to launch it using KeyXing.

#!/bin/sh
cd __OBJ_PARENT_PATH__; /usr/local/bin/stuff -f sitx -n __OBJ_NAME__.sitx __OBJ_NAME__ -r 7

is this correct? how does one have it execute silently without opening Terminal windows?

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by headbirth:
looking to create this shellscript for stuffing and unstuffing operations on selected items in the Finder and then use something like platypus to make it an app and assign a key combination to launch it using KeyXing.

#!/bin/sh
cd __OBJ_PARENT_PATH__; /usr/local/bin/stuff -f sitx -n __OBJ_NAME__.sitx __OBJ_NAME__ -r 7

is this correct? how does one have it execute silently without opening Terminal windows?

What are "__OBJ_PARENT_PATH__" and "__OBJ_NAME__" supposed to be? Is that something to do with platypus?

Something like this maybe:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

item_to_stuff="$1"

if [ "${item_to_stuff}" == "" ]; then
    echo "Usage: `basename $0` <item_to_stuff>"
    exit 1
fi

cd `dirname ${item_to_stuff}` && /usr/local/bin/stuff -f sitx -n ${item_to_stuff}.sitx ${item_to_stuff} -r 7

I don't know anything about platypus, but from a strict shell perspective that would work.