One of the gaps in the Mac version of MarcEdit has been the lack of a console mode. This update should correct that. However, a couple things about how his works…
1) Mac applications are bundles, so in order to run the console program you need to run against the application bundle. What does this look like? From the terminal, one would run
>>/Applications/MarcEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/MarcEdit —console
The —console flag initializes the terminal application and prompts for file names. You can pass the filenames (this must be fully qualified paths at this point) via command-line arguments rather than running in an interactive mode. For example:
>>/Applications/MarcEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/MarcEdit —s /users/me/Desktop/source.mrc —d /users/me/Desktop/output.mrk —break
The above would break a MARC file into the mnemonic format. For a full list of console commands, enter:
>>/Applications/MarcEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/MarcEdit —help
In the future, the MarcEdit install program will be setting an environmental variable ($MARCEDIT_PATH) on installation. At this point, I recommend opening your .bash_profile, and add the following line:
export MARCEDIT_PATH=/Applications/MarcEdit.app/Contents/MacOS
You can get this download from: http://marcedit.reeset.net/downloads
–tr