Is it possible to execute unix commands in dashcode?

By smg58 at Fri, Feb 15 2008 3:33pm |

Hi, I'm new to the site here. I've just started playing around with dashcode, and I was wondering if it is possible to create a widget where I could execute a UNIX command with the touch of a button. (I'm a scientist who does a lot of number-crunching with fortran but has never built a website, so HTML and javascript are totally new beasts to me.)

Thanks for your help!

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Thu, 2008-02-28 04:52 — Pascal

Yes, that's possible. Use

Yes, that's possible. Use "widget.system()" to do that, documented here:

Apple Dashboard Documentation

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Mon, 2008-02-18 12:30 — smg58

Thanks! Scott

Thanks!

Scott

Mon, 2008-02-18 16:09 — drewmccormack

Unix commands in dashcode

For completeness, here is an example that I used in a widget called 'Desktop Dustup' to find old files and move them to the trash:

		var findCommand = "/usr/bin/find ~/Desktop -fstype local -maxdepth 1 -ctime +" + numberOfDaysFilesKept + " -exec mv -- {} ~/.Trash \\; >/dev/null 2>&1";
		widget.system(findCommand, null);

Drew

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