On Nov 15, 2007, at 11:04 AM, dzurn wrote:
However, now there's arbitrary (unknown) text attached to the filename, so I want to use a wildcard in this command. I got a suggestion to use an unquoted * as a wildcard. But if AAAAis selected, this command: open "file:///path/to/repository/$TM_SELECTED_TEXT"* will open a file in Textmate named AAAA*, which is not what I want: I want AAAA.pdf and AAAA-morestuff.pdfto open.
The `open` command will handle local files just fine without the "file://" protocol specified. This worked for me to open `textmate.pdf`:
open "/Users/rob/Documents/Books/textmate"*
Note that the * wild-card is interpreted by the shell and the result is then passed to `open`. Your shell doesn't see any files named "file://something", so it bails. Basically, the * means nothing to the `open` command and "file://" means nothing to your shell. A plain old file path is something they both understand, which is why the above command works.
--- Rob McBroom http://www.skurfer.com/ I didn't "switch" to Apple... my OS did.