spath(7)

NAME
spath - find the server-based path that corresponds to the page displayed in the frontmost Safari window

SYNOPSIS
spath

DESCRIPTION
spath, when issued from the command prompt in Terminal, iTerm, or xterm, will copy the directory corresponding to the web page displayed in Safari into the clip-board paste buffer and will assign the variable SPATH to that directory. The purpose of this is so that if you own the web page displayed in Safari having the url http://www.myplace.org/foo/index.html and the file index.html resides in (for example) ~/Sites/foo, typing the command spath copies the directory path ~/Sites/foo into the clipboard paste buffer and into the environment variable SPATH for purposes of additional shell scripting tasks you may need to perform. For this to work, you must have exported the environment variables PUBLIC_HTML and MY_DOMAIN from your .zshrc file or equivalent. For the above example, you would want the lines export PUBLIC_HTML="/Users/$USER/Sites" and export MY_DOMAIN="myplace.org" in your .zshrc file. (If you put in www.myplace.org, that will work too, but if you use simply myplace.org, BOTH www.myplace.org and myplace.org will be recognized in your browser. If these are not matched by what is displayed in the browser, a message is returned that states that the name does not appear to be part of the file system. The function is a zsh shell script that invokes an osascript that invokes a javascript to communicate with Safari.

ENVIRONMENT
The environment variables PUBLIC_HTML and MY_DOMAIN must be exported as described above. The environment variable SPATH is assigned each time the function is invoked.

AUTHOR
 William Scott

SEE ALSO
cds(7), eds(7)