On Oct 16, 2004, at 14:30, Allan Odgaard wrote:
Yes, however with the help of your suggestion and a bit of own brain activity - a rare but appreciated event - I created a work around for my system that works by using a custom shell variable that contains the path to the Sites directory.
echo $TM_SITES_DIRECTORY /Volumes/WorkDisk/Users/mats/Sites
Ah, yes -- I think that's really the only "general" solution, seeing how there is no way we can extract the “logical” project directory from the existing variables.
(With an embarrassed face) Hmm, was a bit too cocky there thinking I understood this all. Which I didn't of course.
Now having spent too much of the weekend trying to decipher the incomprehensible 'english' of the man files, online tutorials etc etc. I am still stuck and confused.
I am trying to create my own shell variable that is embedded in a new file when it's created like this:
Creating a new file "/Users/mats/Sites/projectName/index.php" should embed the variable TM_PROJ_FILEPATH which should be "/projectName/index.php" into the newly created file.
So I am trying this inside a text doc in TM with no success. What's wrong ??
TM_PROJ_FILEPATH=`$TM_FILEPATH | sed "s|^$TM_SITES_DIRECTORY(.*)$|\1|"` echo $TM_PROJ_FILEPATH /bin/sh: line 1: /Volumes/WorkDisk/Users/mats/Sites/projectName/index.php: Permission denied
( I have tried the above and any possible variation I could think of with no success)
The template file command is: [ -f "$TM_NEW_FILE" ] || TM_DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d` TM_YEAR=`date +%Y` TM_USERNAME=`niutil -readprop / /users/$USER realname` perl -pe 's/${([^}]*)}/$ENV{$1}/g' <index.php >"$TM_NEW_FILE"
and in that command I would like to add the new variable value TM_PROJ_FILEPATH.
In the template I use ${TM_FILEPATH} and when I create a new template TM_FILEPATH takes the value of the currently selected Tab in the Tab bar.
You should use TM_NEW_FILE instead :)
Yeah, I told you I was embarrassed. : )
Do you have any recommendations about good resources for learning that stuff, books or online ? How did you grasp it all ?
<SNIP> Personally I don't mind unix questions sent to this list, since TextMate is so tied to shell stuff.
Be careful with what you don' t mind. Someone might take you up on it. : )
Attn: Andre. Thanks for those links and recommendations.
Perhaps I could suggest that you guys who know and understand this stuff could create a ShellScriptCorner on the wiki where you could translate the incomprehensible stuff into examples and ENGLISH for us non-geek's. Because the writers of man files and online UNIX guides sure as hell hasn't.
Apologies, but I *HATE IT* when I can't work something out myself. AND the only reason that I can't do it is that the people who have created the problem assumed that I - or anyone else - knows as much as they do, and therefore see logic when there is none.
Kind regards,
Mats