SuperDuper and Shell Scripting

[Beej]

Is there a command I can put in a shell script that will tell SuperDuper to 'run now'?

Reason: I'm trying to script some maintenance that will run SuperDuper, restart off the SuperDuper drive, check that everything is OK and restart off the original drive. I would like to do this because part of my normal procedure is to check that the SuperDuper drive is actually bootable and will load to the Desktop.

[dnanian]

You can use the general techniques we use in the scripting driver to run it with an AppleScript (and osascript will run from a shell script).

[Beej]

How would I go about learning more about the general techniques you use in the scripting driver?

[dnanian]

Well, you can extract the applescript from our application bundle (or see the FAQ for a much earlier script). It's reasonably well documented.

[rlesperance]

Hi dnanian,

Can you be more precise on where (link please) I can have more information on AppleScripting SuperDuper ?


Thanks in advance.


Robert Lespérance

[dnanian]

You can examine the scripting dictionary, of course, and you can access our script driver in the application bundle. It's called "Copy Job Applescript.template".