Can't get started with tutorial

[wikner]

After many years of frustration with AppleScript I have decided to give Python a go. I started to work through the tutorial at http://www.perceptiveautomation.com/wik ... g_tutorial.

I haven't gotten very far, because I can't get bash to recognize the alias "indigoserver".

Per instructions I executed:

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echo "alias indigohost='/Library/Application\ Support/Perceptive\ Automation/Indigo\ 5/IndigoPluginHost.app/Contents/MacOS/IndigoPluginHost'" >> ~/.bashrc

I verified that this had caused the correct line to be entered in ~/.bashch by opening it in BBEdit. BBEdit shows there is one line there, namely:

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alias indigohost='/Library/Application\ Support/Perceptive\ Automation/Indigo\ 5/IndigoPluginHost.app/Contents/MacOS/IndigoPluginHost'

However, when I start a ew terminal session, "indigohost" is not recognised until I type the alias command directly into the terminal session.

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Last login: Fri Apr 13 16:55:21 on ttys000
Homemaker:~ norman$ indigohost -i
-bash: indigohost: command not found
Homemaker:~ norman$ alias indigohost='/Library/Application\ Support/Perceptive\ Automation/Indigo\ 5/IndigoPluginHost.app/Contents/MacOS/IndigoPluginHost'
Homemaker:~ norman$ indigohost -i
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Aug  1 2011, 15:52:49) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)]
Connected to Indigo Server 5.1.0 (localhost:1176)
>>> 

So what do I do to get Terminal to read and execute the .bashch file on launch?

[matt (support)]

I verified that this had caused the correct line to be entered in ~/.bashch by opening it in BBEdit. BBEdit shows there is one line there, namely

In the .bashch or .bashrc file? The 'echo' line above should add it to the .bashrc file.

You can also try adding it to the .bash_profile file instead:

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echo "alias indigohost='/Library/Application\ Support/Perceptive\ Automation/Indigo\ 5/IndigoPluginHost.app/Contents/MacOS/IndigoPluginHost'" >> ~/.bash_profile

[wikner]

Good pickup. I guess in your business typos are very important I meant to say .bashrc. In any case I did this:

cp .bashrc .bash_profile

then quit and relaunched Terminal. The indigohost command then worked. (I discovered, on the way, that there needs to be a newline at the end of the line in the file, or it won't work). But fixing that in .bashrc didn't help. The line had to be in .bash_profile. If I delete .bashrc it still works.

Now I'm going to try to see why doing this remotely over ssh is Sooo slooooow. I'll be reporting on this soon.