Allan Odgaard wrote:
You can run mate successfully by going through osascript (the
Thanks, that works fine. For everyone interested, I include the rmate script I now have on my linux machine. I'm actually using a named temp file to make use of the suffix recognition in TM. To automatically get back to the mac you have been connecting from (certainly useful for the root server you rented, I'll do that there), set
HOST=${SSH_CLIENT%% *}
instead of some other default. (As you can see, I started from John's script and just tweaked the commands to work the other way round, hence the subject change.) With four scp/ssh invocations, I strongly recommend using ssh keys and ssh-agent or something like that, for typing your password four times for a single edit is hardly improving security ...
----------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh
HOST='your.mac.machine' USER='myself' FILE=''
if [ $# == 0 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 [-h host] [-u user] [-f] file" exit 1 fi
while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
case $1 in -h) HOST=$2 shift 2 ;; -u) USER=$2 shift 2 ;; -f) shift 2 ;; -f) FILE=$2 shift 2 ;; *) FILE=$1 shift ;; esac done
TMPNAME=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.$FILE
scp -p $FILE $USER@$HOST:/tmp/$TMPNAME && \ ssh $USER@$HOST "osascript -e \ 'tell app "Terminal" to do \ shell script "mate -w /tmp/$TMPNAME"'"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then scp -p $USER@$HOST:/tmp/$TMPNAME $FILE fi ssh $USER@$HOST "rm /tmp/$TMPNAME"
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regards, Christopher