Re: Search for a character
Re: Search for a character
- Subject: Re: Search for a character
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:27:49 +0100
on 21/9/05 04:21, Bruce Robertson at email@hidden wrote:
>> Martin.
>>
>> Your code works wonderfully in Terminal but it won't compile on any of my
>> Macs in Script Editor. All choke on the % sign and give the same error:
>>
>> Syntax error
>> Expected """ but found unknown token
>>
>> Any thoughts on why? It looks to me like the % is escaped correctly and all
>> the quotes line up.
>
> Nope, needs another backslash
>
> set getfs to "df -h / | awk '/\\%/ { print $5 }'"
> do shell script getfs
Or none at all:
set getfs to "df -h / | awk '/%/ { print $5 }'"
do shell script getfs
I escaped the % on the cli version because I assumed it needed escaping. It
doesn't. Awk works either way in the cli but AS doesn't.
Regards
--
Martin Orpen
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