Re: Do shell script
Re: Do shell script
- Subject: Re: Do shell script
- From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:23:45 -0700
In order to pass filenames that contain 'special' characters to a shell
script you need to either escape the characters or quote the string.
The easiest way to do this is simply:
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set myFileName to "AnythingGoes.txt" as Unicode text
set myFoundFiles to every paragraph of (do shell script "find " & myFolder
& " -name " & quoted form of myFileName & " -type f")
Andrew
:)
On 10/14/03 10:38 PM, "Richard Rvnnbdck" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hello,
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I have been noticing some very interesting threads recently about finding
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files with the help of Shell Script. I have been trying that myself, but
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unfortunately I run into trouble when the filename contains special
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characters, such as brackets, spaces etc. and since I have *very* limited
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knowledge of Unix encodings and search strings I don't know how to deal with
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that. Does anyone know of a way to handle this?
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This works:
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set myFolder to alias (((path to current user folder) as string) &
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"Documents") -- in the actual script, the user chooses a folder
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set myFolder to quoted form of (POSIX path of myFolder)
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set myFolder to text 1 thru -3 of myFolder & "'" --drop final "/"
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set myFileName to "AnythingGoes.txt" as Unicode text
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set myFoundFiles to every paragraph of (do shell script "find " & myFolder
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& " -name " & myFileName & " -type f")
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This doesn't
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set myFolder to alias (((path to current user folder) as string) &
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"Documents") -- in the actual script, the user chooses a folder
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set myFolder to quoted form of (POSIX path of myFolder)
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set myFolder to text 1 thru -3 of myFolder & "'" --drop final "/"
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set myFileName to "AnythingGoes(Copy).txt" as Unicode text
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set myFoundFiles to every paragraph of (do shell script "find " & myFolder
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& " -name " & myFileName & " -type f")
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Nor would this
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set myFileName to "Anything Goes.txt" as Unicode text
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