Re: "~" vs. "POSIX file"
Re: "~" vs. "POSIX file"
- Subject: Re: "~" vs. "POSIX file"
- From: email@hidden (Randal L. Schwartz)
- Date: 25 Oct 2006 03:37:13 -0700
>>>>> "Gnarlodious" == Gnarlodious <email@hidden> writes:
Gnarlodious> POSIX file (do shell script "echo $HOME/Desktop/some.txt")
That fails when you have whitespace (like newlines) in the path,
and perhaps also when you have shell-significant characters, since you
are asking a shell to glob a pattern.
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