[PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

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Dan, i am sorry but your function { } business is teribly misleading!
it's gust alias pd="/path/to/app/bin/pd" that anyone would ever need ..

well, do you wanna go like:

PD=//Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd
THIS_COULD_BE_THE_ONLY_REASON_WHY_WE_NEED_IT=$MY_ERRORNO_CMD_NOT_FOUND

function pd {
		if [ -x $PD ] then
		`dirname $PD`/`basename pd`
		else
		echo "COMMAND NOT FOUND, this is a redundant msg!"
		exit $THIS_COULD_BE_THE_ONLY_REASON_WHY_WE_NEED_IT
		}

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 07:57:26PM +0100, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> 
> On Mar 25, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Andrew Faraday wrote:
> 
> > Hey All
> > 
> > I've recently started learning Ruby (on Ubuntu 9.04), part of what I'm trying to do is control PD through ruby, using the terminal. 
> > The main trouble I'm having now is that I'm mostly using a Mac OS X machine which doesn't recognize the 'pdsend' and 'pdreceive' commands (as the linux shell does). I've tried opening the files with these names in /resources/bin which open a new terminal window and display what looks like the relevant -help text. But I can't seem to use these to send messages to and from pd from the Mac OS terminal. (in theory I could then automate this with Ruby). 
> > 
> > Any ideas, at all?
> 
> I had the same issue when trying to use some scripts I made in Linux with pd. I solved it by adding some function wrappers to my ~/.bash_profile:
> 
> # pd commandline
> function pd {
> 	/Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd $@;
> }
> export -f pd
> 
> function pdsend {
> 	/Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pdsend $@;
> }
> export -f pdsend
> 
> Make sure to restart the terminal session for it to take effect.
> 
> --------
> Dan Wilcox
> danomatika.com
> robotcowboy.com
> 
> 
> 
> 

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