Re: Shell Script's
Re: Shell Script's
- Subject: Re: Shell Script's
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:18:27 -0400
I assumed the goal was to have *unescaped* quotes in the shell
command. Knowing the actual command in question would help.
Quoted form of is useful for individual "words" of a shell command,
but not for the whole thing. :)
On 3/10/08, Doug McNutt <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 23:48 -0400 3/9/08, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Connor DiPietro <email@hidden> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> I am trying to make and an application in Xcode written in
> >> applescript, and when someone clicks a button i want to preform a
> >> shell script. i Am having difficulty preforming the shell script
> >> (let's say x's represent the shell script)
> >>
> >
> >To include double quotes inside a string in AppleScript, escape them
> >with a backslash, e.g.
> >
> >do shell script "xxxxxxxxxxx\"xxx\"xxxxx xxx xxx"
>
> Yeah. But be careful because AppleScript itself is likely to interpret the
> backslashes which can require that the backslashes be escaped with yet more
> backslashes.
>
> Learn about "quoted form of". There's an app note about it by Chris Nebel.
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