THOR's Shell Hacks

[kolla]

Could you point out when you describe something that specifically requires shell newer than that of OS3.1? Personally I use your shell even on "3.1ish" setups.

[kolla]

Ok, great!

[kolla]

Hah, this means popcorn!

[kolla]

Personally I find ViNCEd a bit "too much!!" and wish that job control, tab expandation etc could be moved to the shell itself.

[kolla]

A posting about SPARWED, ie the protection flags, and how H (hold) now works again could be nice, as people seem ignorant about them.

[kolla]

I recall feeding ssh with password using + many many years ago, something like...

RequestString password
ssh myhost "remote commando" +
$password

Or on second thought, maybe I ended up using pipe because + did not work with ssh?
Anyhow I felt very dirty, hehe.

[kolla]

Regarding curly braces - are they default for .bra and .ket now?

[kolla]

If I remember correctly one can also use .bra and .ket many times and write very messy and unreadable scripts

[kolla]

By the way: The above script ("T:myList") contains at least potential problem. Do you see it? Can you fix it?

Not sure, please do tell

The way Execute parses the scripts can be used for funny exercises , such as changing .BRA and .KET conditionally throughout the script, the parsed script may very well look very different each time the script is executed.

One thing I have been missing, is a way to do "set echo on" in startup-sequence, but with output to a file in RAM: - for example if the echo variable could be a filename "set echo ram:bootlog"?

[kolla]

Ah yes, paths with spaces, of course. Btw - I read the guide for your latest shell update, and the part about $STACK: it says it expects decimal as value, but surely you meant to write integer?

[kolla]

Hmmm? It expects certainly an integer, but encoded in ASCII to the base of ten, i.e. a decimal number.

Yeah, well - but decimal numbers may contain fractions, for example 11.37

No big deal though, just confused me a little.

[kolla]

No really related to the shell itself, but anyhow... Something I have pondered on what/what defines LFORMAT entities for c:List, for example? And why isn't there one that is like %P, only without trailing / ? :) Nor is there an option to list a drawer itself instead of the content of a drawer - right? I am missing the equivalent of *ix "ls -d".

Also it would be nice to override locales, just today I was taken off by how I have to use norwegian like

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list all files since "i dag" ("i dag" meaning "today") - I don't mind that I _can_ use norwegian, but it would for sure be nice, for scripts etc, that english worked as well. Same for input to C:Date.

[kolla]

Can you say something about when Execute is used, and hence what shell features one can use in the different cases? For example, it is not used to execute S:Startup-Sequence, but it is, by default used for S:User-Startup. How about S:Shell-Startup?

[kolla]

Digging up this old thread...

@ThoR

Instead of writing, let me just illustrate my question...

(and this doesn't even show all my desperate attempts at escaping)

I hope it is obvious what I try to accomplish?

My goal was to have the content of a file displayed as the body of RequestChoice.

[kolla]

Hm, so how do I make a variable that can subsitute "foo foo*nbar bar" in the below example, so that the requester pops up with two lines in body, like it does in the below example? I really tried using all your suggestions, and except for the last one, where it only expands to "foo foo" (the first line before line feed), all I ever get is literally "foo foo*nbar bar" (without quotes) in the body  

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C:requestchoice title "test title" body "foo foo*nbar bar" gadgets "OK" "Cancel"

And worse yet - how to get the content of a file there, with linefeeds represented by "*n", using backticking?

Something that works, but isn't quite what I picture a solution...

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set blarb foo foo
set blurb bar bar
requestchoice "testing" "${blarb}*n${blurb}" "OK"

so... with one variable per line, it works. But that is very cumbersome