Re: Shell Script's
Re: Shell Script's
- Subject: Re: Shell Script's
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:38:34 -0700
- Thread-topic: Shell Script's
Since Unix shell scripts understand single 'quotes' as equivalent to double
quotes, and AppleScript does not need escaping of single quote (which are
just any old characters to AppleScript) why not use them?
do shell script "xxxxxxxxxx 'xxx' xxxxx xxx xxx"
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Paul Berkowitz
> From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 22:09:37 -0600
> To: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Shell Script's
>
> 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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