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Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
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Re: Help -- going posix space crazy


  • Subject: Re: Help -- going posix space crazy
  • From: julifos <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:09:53 +0100

>> The following works as long as the path doesn't have any spaces in the
>> names -- then add spaces, and I get a format error for the mv command.
>> Any insight appreciated. Complete text of the minimized testing script
>> is at:
>> http://www.cyberpoet.net/as/030220help.txt
>
> 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. It encloses the given string in single
> quotes, and escapes any single quotes within the string.
>
> Besides, I think you're using 'POSIX path' when you mean 'POSIX file'.
> Given an AppleScript file object (file, alias, etc.) you use the 'POSIX
> path' property to get the Unicode text of its path. Given a string that is
> supposedly a pathname, you use the 'POSIX file' class with that string to
> get an AppleScript file object.
>
> set f to choose file -- f is a file object
> set p to POSIX path of f -- p is Unicode text of the path
> set f1 to POSIX file p -- f1 is a file object again
>
> set qp to quoted form of p -- qp is a path string you can send to Terminal
> even if it contains spaces or special characters
>
> Chris

By the way, do you know how can I do to make this work?

################
set f_ to quoted form of posix path of alias "path:to:folder:"
set f2_ to quoted form of "re ksqolis" -- * see note below

paragraphs of (do shell script "cd " & f_ & ";ls " & f2_ & "*")
################

* f2_ is "re k" + oacute + ntilde + "olis"

And I like to find files in a folder matching this simple pattern...

Tx!

JJ
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