Reading plaintext data from file into Tinderbox

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Thanks. Did not really understand it at first. Making for sense now.

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Thanks. IIRC, readlink isnā€™t installed as a Mac default. It can be installed using Homebrewā€  via this command line:

brew install coreutils

As regards a ā€˜manualā€™ for readlink, users with Dash installed, add ā€˜manpagesā€™ and you can read about readlink in a UI rather than having to use terminal.

@ndpi is there a method to do this using plain vanilla Mac install. I ask as many users here arenā€™t techies or CompSci folk so ā€˜justā€™ installing *nix command line tools isnā€™t always comfortable feeling or a simple task. :slight_smile: Thanks for your help with this.

ā€ . Homebrew is also not a default Mac install, so if you donā€™t have that youā€™d need to install it (see https://brew.sh for more) before installing coreutils. Sorry there isnā€™t a more user-friendly method for non-tech users.

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Always a good thing to check. The BSD version of readlink should be installed by default at /usr/bin/readlink. Homebrew packages the more modern, feature-rich GNU utilities.

It looks like Apple has a man page in their online archives for the system call but not the utility; thereā€™s a copy available on a 3rd party site here: readlink(1) [osx man page]

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