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Hi there,

We have 2 apps on our customers machines that can both open files with the same file extension. Is there any way via shell commands to set which application should be the default?
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Hi there,

If we have 2 apps on our customers machines that can both open files of a certain file extension, is there any way via shell commands to set which application should be the default?
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Perfect! Thank you for such a quick solution :)

Hi!

I need to read in the first line from a text file (which will only ever have one line in it), so I tried this....

while read line
do
echo $line
done < $file

But this wasn't returning...

:rolleyes:

Hi, thanks for your response, that's really helpful. This is the 'UNIX for Dummies' forum - "All UNIX and Linux newbies welcome" - hence there perhaps be a slight lack of understanding...

Hi, I was getting 'too many arguments' error message, but your recomendation works a treat! Thanks for your help :)

Hi there,

I'm having some trouble with a script were I want 2 expressions to evaluate to true before my if loop will continue...

if [ `echo $line|grep "string"` -a $var -eq 1 ] ; then

Both...

Tiger is definitely handling these numbers differently - when I run the code in Leopard the results are;

1
0
0
0

and in Tiger...

0
0
0
0

:confused:

I should just point out that whilst this comparison works ok in Leopard (10.5.6), on Tiger (10.4.11) it always returns success regardless of the numbers it is comparing. :(

That works a treat! thank you for your help :)

Apologies I should of been more clear in my post but thank you for your response.

I tried running the example code, but unforunately some errors were returned in Terminal (terminal shell set to...

It's just for a script in an installer package that needs to check the OS version to ensure it's suitable.

So I have for example decided that 10.4.6 is the required version my install needs and a...

Hi There!

Apologies if this has been asked previously but I couldn't find the answer I was hoping for.

Basically, all I want to do is compare the OS X version against the version that I require...

Hi there,

Is there any command to check if a particular application is open on a mac?

thanks

:)

SOLVED - Hi I've created a routine in perl that will read this key :)

Hi there,

I'm trying to retrieve a value from a plist file, which I have done before with no problems, however this plist file looks a little different....

Normally it's like this;
<plist...

that's works perfectly! thank you very much for your help. :)

Hi there,

I'm using terminal on mac and using the ls -l command to list all the files in a directory. However, I only want to display the date and time stamp of each file rather than permissions,...

Hi all,

I'm creating a script which uses 'defaults read' to retrieve details from an Info.plist like this;

defaults read "/Path/Contents/Info" CFBundleShortVersionString

This works fine in...

Thank you very much everybody for your help!

Hi All,

Is it possible in Unix shell script to extract numbers from a string containing ".", such as;

5.2.314

And store in variables so;

var1 = 5
var2 = 2
var3 = 314

Thanks in...

Hi,

Is there a standard command for retrieving the version of any given file (assuming the file has a version)?

Thanks in advance

Dave
:)