i have just been introduced to applescripts and how useful it is w/ the unix terminal. man! this is great.
i update my database every now and again. i use 3 unix commands to invoke a perl script someone helped me make. one command i will show as an example:
perl mac2pc.pl 05182004/05182004.txt > 05182004/05182004pcd.txt
“05182004/05182004.txt” is the folder/text perl uses to massage the data. i always name it after the date of the update. so folder 05182004 has a file 05182204.txt in it. perl manipulates the data and renames the new text file “05182004pcd.txt”
no the only part that slows me down is inputing the dates. is there a way i can just plug in the date (ei.: 05212004) and have the applescript change the date to whatever i tell it to do so i don’t have to cut/paste the dates of folder/text?
so…, before i activate the script, i plug in the date somewhere, and applescript modifies the commands to reflect the date desired.