Converting an Apple script to a shell script ...
 

Hi Dave,

I have a regular Apple script that I would like to execute before actually beginning the backup. This is the script:

Code:

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property imagesPathList : {"/Sauvegardes/SuperDuper/Duplication - iMacG5.sparseimage"}

tell application "Caffeine"
        turn on
end tell

repeat with i in imagesPathList
        set filePath to i
        try
                do shell script "hdiutil compact " & quoted form of filePath
        end try
end repeat

tell application "Caffeine"
        turn off
end tell

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Can you help me translate this to a shell script ?

Regards.




Robert

Wouldn't it make more sense to store this in an applescript file, and run that from a shell script? In other words:

Hi Dave,

The only way I used shell scripts is from inside an AppleScript. Now I will be doing it the other way around, and I know nothing about shell scripting.

I will try it and get back ...

Thank you.


Robert