Re: Paths & quoted form & do shell script
Re: Paths & quoted form & do shell script
- Subject: Re: Paths & quoted form & do shell script
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 21:39:10 -0400
Well, this script works for me:
set thePath to "/Users/martinorpen/Documents/Photoshop Edit Log.txt"
do shell script "/usr/bin/grep -i saved " & quoted form of thePath
Maybe the path in the text file is weird? It doesn't include quote
marks in the file, does it?
On 10/8/05, Martin Orpen <email@hidden> wrote:
> on 8/10/05 23:06, Mark J. Reed at email@hidden wrote:
>
> > On 10/8/05, Martin Orpen <email@hidden> wrote:
> >> But, I wanted my script to check a text file that may have been written to
> >> disk the previous time that the script was run and grab the file path from
> >> that file.
> >>
> >> When I do that I get the shell choking on the path:
> >>
> >> set tFile to (path to temporary items as string) & "PSLogTest.txt"
> >> set thePath to paragraph 1 of (read file tFile)
> >
> > What does thePath contain at this point?
>
> --> "/Users/martinorpen/Documents/Photoshop Edit Log.txt"
>
>
> >> do shell script "/usr/bin/grep -i saved " & quoted form of thePath
> >
> >
> >> sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> >> sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> >
> > That looks to me like the pathname has an apostrophe in it that isn't
> > getting quoted properly. I'd really need tosee what that line looks
> > like to diagnose the problem.
>
> The final line is exactly what I'd expect:
>
> /usr/bin/grep -i saved '/Users/martinorpen/Documents/Photoshop Edit Log.txt'
>
> If I paste that into Terminal it will work as I expect too!
>
> But "do shell script" will not work as expected.
>
> >> BTW, is there an easy way of getting an *escaped form* of a POSIX path
> >> without having to write a handler to do it?
> >
> > I don't understand the question. You're looking for something other
> > than "quoted form of"?
>
> Yep. I'm looking for an *escaped form* of a path:
>
> /Users/martinorpen/Documents/Photoshop\ Edit\ Log.txt
>
> The same as you get if you drag a file or folder on the Terminal window.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Martin Orpen
>
>
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