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I was looking for a widget that can either run commands in the shell and display the output, or run the ‘cat’ command on a file. I was going to use it on Folding@Home, to display the unitinfo.txt file.

In boredom, I made a widget for Dashboard in Tiger that runs the ‘cat’ command in UNIX in a user-definable interval, and refreshes the result.

You can get it “Here(dashcat.v0.1.zip)”:http://lokisnake.com/widgets/dashcat.v0.1.zip

It is currently *not* user-friendly, but it gets the job done.

To change the settings, you would need to go into the .wdgt bundle, and edit the javascript and css files. It isn’t complicated to work with, but can be improved.

I will be improving this little by little. And feel free to submit comments and suggestions to lokisnake (at) lokisnake (dot) com

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 1st, 2005 at 10:43 pm and is filed under General, Mac OS X.