Apple Script for Unix Touch command within hazel rule.

[justinkthornton]

I'm starting to link rules together to run one right after another. But sometimes hazel is a be slow to make to run the rules. Mr_Noodle said a way to speed things up is by using the hazel touch command on the folder that has that particular rule.

What I want to do is have the rule that happens before the current rule run an applescript that waits 2 sec or so then runs a the unix touch command. I've done some googling and have found no way to run the unix touch command within an applescript. Anyone know?

[Mr_Noodle]

Is there a reason why it has to be AppleScript? The following shell script would do it:

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sleep 2
touch "$1"


Otherwise, you can do an AppleScript to execute a shell script which seems a bit roundabout to me.