Create script that attaches to menu command 'Run' in #!

[Venkat]

Hello, I'm relatively new to scripting, and need some help writing up a script that may need extension in the future. I write and compile LaTeX documents in BBEdit, and my workflow is  to create a build.sh (in the same folder) file with the following code that's enough to compile the latex code in the folder:

#!/bin/sh

latexmk -xelatex -verbose -pv

I was wondering if it was possible to create a script (stored in scripts folder) that is called every time I hit the keys Cmd+R together, when the frontmost open text file is a .tex file. In the future, I hope to extend this script for other filetypes. Anyone have any tips or a template script I can work with? 

[jj]

Hi Venkat,

This applescript might do what you want if I correctly understood your workflow:

```applescript

try

tell application "BBEdit"

tell first window

tell first document

if not (its on disk) then

error "BBEdit's front document is not saved on disk."

end if

set vName to (its name) as string

set vLanguage to (its source language) as string

ignoring case

if not (vName ends with ".tex" or vLanguage is "TeX") then

error "BBEdit's front document is not a TeX document."

end if

end ignoring

set vFile to its file

end tell

end tell

set vFilePath to POSIX path of vFile

set vDirectoryPath to do shell script "dirname" & space & the quoted form of vFilePath

set vScriptPath to vDirectoryPath & "/build.sh"

do shell script the quoted form of vScriptPath

end tell

on error aMessage

display alert aMessage as critical

end try

```

Name it and copy it to BBEdit's Scripts folder and in the menu Window > Palettes > Scripts palette you can assign it a keyboard shortcut.

HTH

Jean Jourdain

[Venkat]

Thank you! This seems to be what I'm after, however I'm running into a permissions issue, with this being the error message I get: sh: /Users/venkgvi/Desktop/talk/build.sh: Permission denied

I'm not sure why I'm getting this message, since running build.sh directly from the #! menu works fine. Do I need to add permissions somewhere in the AppleScript? Also is it possible to include the contents of build.sh directly in the AppleScript script? So instead of:

set vScriptPath to vDirectoryPath & "/build.sh"

Can I write the contents of build.sh directly in the script? I was wondering if I can skip making an extra shell script file in my project folder.

[jj]

Either, make sure build.sh has execution permissions.

  • in terminal run:

    sudo chmod ug+x /Users/venkgvi/Desktop/talk/build.sh

    

or 

  • execute the command directly from the script:

    ... 

    set vDirectoryPath to do shell script "dirname" & space & the quoted form of vFilePath

    set vCommand to "cd" & space & (the quoted form of vDirectoryPath) & space & ";"

    set vCommand to vCommand & "PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin'" & space 

    set vCommand to vCommand & "latexmk -xelatex -verbose -pv"

    do shell script vCommand

  If you get an error about latexmk not being found, check where latexmk is on your setup.

  In terminal run:

    

    which latexmk

  and add the the latexmk directory to the PATH or put the fully qualified path to latexmk in the command.

[Patrick Woolsey]

On 7/16/21 at 9:30 AM, gvenka...@gmail.com (Venkat) wrote:

> Thank you! This seems to be what I'm after, however I'm running into a

> permissions issue, with this being the error message I get: *sh:
> /Users/venkgvi/Desktop/talk/build.sh: Permission denied*

>
> I'm not sure why I'm getting this message, since running build.sh directly

> from the #! menu works fine. [...]

Please see:

https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/faqs.html#quarantine

and its associated tech note:

https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/quarantine.html

:-)


Regards

Patrick Woolsey
==
Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/>

[Venkat]

Thank you!