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Re: Paths & quoted form & do shell script
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Re: Paths & quoted form & do shell script


  • Subject: Re: Paths & quoted form & do shell script
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 17:52:40 -0600

At 23:14 +0100 10/8/05, Martin Orpen wrote:
>Yep. I'm looking for an *escaped form* of a path:
>/Users/martinorpen/Documents/Photoshop\ Edit\ Log.txt

Remember that AppleScript processes the backslashes itself. You need to escape the backslashes too. "Quoted form of" handles all of that.

/Users/martinorpen/Documents/Photoshop\\ Edit\\ Log.txt
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