Editing using FTP & SCP commands - TextMate

19 Jun 2006


      I was getting tired of waiting to fire up Transmit every time I  
wanted to edit a file with TextMate over FTP, so I decided to create  
my own modest script, I decided to post it here just in case anybody  
else found it useful
--- Start "ftpmate"
#!/usr/bin/env bash
REMOTE_FILE=$(echo $1 | awk -F '/' '{print $NF}')
LOCAL_FILE="/tmp/"$REMOTE_FILE
CD="/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/ 
CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/CocoaDialog bubble --background-top  
EFEFEF --background-bottom CACACA --icon-file /Applications/ 
TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/TextMate.icns"
ftp -o $LOCAL_FILE ftp://$1
if [[ $? = "0" ]]; then
    MD5_OUT=$(md5 $LOCAL_FILE)
    mate -w $LOCAL_FILE
    if [[ "$MD5_OUT" != "$(md5 $LOCAL_FILE)" ]]; then
    	ftp -u ftp://$1 $LOCAL_FILE
    	if [[ $? = "255" ]]; then
    		$CD --title "FTPMate" --text "$REMOTE_FILE updated" &
    	else
    		$CD --title "FTPMate" --text "Unable to update $REMOTE_FILE" &
    	fi
    fi
    rm -r $LOCAL_FILE
    else
    	$CD --title "FTPMate" --text "Unable to retrieve $REMOTE_FILE" &
fi
--- End
usage : ftpmate [user[:password]@]host[:port]/path
The script attempts to fetch the file and writes it to /tmp/ where it  
is opened by TextMate, after the 'mate' process has ended a checksum  
is compared to the pre-opened checksum and if it has changed then the  
file is uploaded.
I decided to use the bubble requester in the CocoaDialog app because  
I am calling the script outside a shell session and want to know the  
file had successfully been uploaded.
Likewise I also made a script using SCP instead of FTP
--- Start "scpmate"
#!/usr/bin/env bash
REMOTE_FILE=$(echo $1 | awk -F '/|:' '{print $NF}')
LOCAL_FILE="/tmp/"$REMOTE_FILE
CD="/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/ 
CocoaDialog.app/Contents/MacOS/CocoaDialog bubble --background-top  
EFEFEF --background-bottom CACACA --icon-file /Applications/ 
TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/TextMate.icns"
scp $1 $LOCAL_FILE
if [[ $? = "0" ]]; then
    MD5_OUT=$(md5 $LOCAL_FILE)
    mate -w $LOCAL_FILE
    if [[ "$MD5_OUT" != "$(md5 $LOCAL_FILE)" ]]; then
    	scp $LOCAL_FILE $1
    	if [[ $? = "0" ]]; then
    		$CD --title "SCPMate" --text "$REMOTE_FILE updated" &
    	else
    		$CD --title "SCPMate" --text "Unable to update $REMOTE_FILE" &
    	fi
    fi
    rm -r $LOCAL_FILE
    else
    	$CD --title "SCPMate" --text "Unable to retrieve $REMOTE_FILE" &
fi
--- End
usage : scpmate [user@]host:path