Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
- Subject: Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 09:38:24 +0000
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a7
At 2:37 pm -0800 21/2/03, Chris Espinosa wrote:
Have you heard of the 'quoted form' property for strings and Unicode text?
It is very useful for creating things that can be used as parameters in do
shell script or sent to Terminal.
This is no good if you have a relative pathname such as "~/desktop/some file"
set f to quoted form of "~/desktop/some file"
try
do shell script "open " & f
on error e
e
end try
--> open[1138] No such file: ~/desktop/some file"
JD
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