Part 2

Tutorials

About the Tutorials

Part 2 of this book is a collection of tutorials that illustrate pitfalls, work-around solutions, components, and algorithmic ideas that are useful when building workflow and media management systems.

To make sure the tutorials are as useful as possible, I have purposely kept the coding of any scripts or source code quite simple and straightforward. You can add the “bells and whistles” to your own implementations.

Upgrade your parameter-collecting support via getopt() calls, or range-check all the input arguments as well as redirecting errors to silence any unnecessary warnings.

Most of these tutorials are implemented with UNIX shell commands and some with AppleScript. A few mix in some Visual Basic where ...

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