[PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

[Michal Seta]

IIRC you need the command 'open' to run some commands on MacOSX  (if
they are not in the usual /usr/bin directory, or similar).

for using pdsend on MacOS I had to this:
echo "YOUR_DATA";|/Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pdsend
PORT

I'd open the Pd application by
open /Applications/Pd-extended.app

(just make sure to replace Pd-extended.app by whatever Pd you use)

So, if you are creating scripts that are to be portable between linux
and MacOS you should check for OS first and then construct your
commands accordingly.

Another note, somewhat unrelated, is that the [shell] external does
not behave in the same way on Linux and MacOS.  pwd command, for
example, in linux reports the directory from which I started Pd (which
is what I expect), in MacOS, however, it always reports the root of
the system.  Ok, that's the only example that I stumbled upon but I
only used it once for one thing (that was meant to run on both Mac and
linux) :)

best

./MiS

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 27, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Dan Wilcox wrote:
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> On Mar 26, 2010, at 10:09 PM, errordeveloper at gmail.com wrote:
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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 ..
>
> Yeah, I hadn't tried an alias.  I think it's a better option.
>
> Ok, I added the above information to the puredata.info docs.  I was going to
> do it earlier, but the function definitions I was using originally were
> throwing annoying errors in places that call .bash_profile (Xcode).  Now
> everything is peachy using aliases.
> I know it seems redundant to repost info thats now archive on the list ...
> but isn't the webpage wiki where most of these tips and tricks out to go
> anyway?
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