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• Sydde

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  Posted: 10 February 2002 12:24 PM

  I am curious about accessing Unix commands from Cocoa apps. Is it practical, or even feasible?

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  Seemed like a good idea at the time

       

• EDGar

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  Posted: 09 February 2002 10:12 AM #1

  I don’t know the commands for it but I’m sure it is imminently practical.  There are a number of Cocoa apps out there that are really just wrappers for UNIX tools. 

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• spazum64

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  Posted: 10 February 2002 12:21 PM #2

  Use NSTask. It allows you to start another “task” from your app, and you can communicate with it. I recommend you use a NSTask to launch /bin/tcsh with no arguments, and then you can write commands to it just like in Terminal.

       

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  Posted: 10 February 2002 12:24 PM #3

  Actually, /bin/tcsh isn’t really necessary, because if you’re communicating with the shell through a Cocoa app, you probably won’t need tcsh’s autocompletion and spell checking. Just launch /bin/sh or whatever you want.