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Re: Rewrite simple Finder tell statement to "do shell script"

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Re: Rewrite simple Finder tell statement to "do shell script"

Subject: Re: Rewrite simple Finder tell statement to "do shell script"
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:24:31 -0500

On Sep 11, 2012, at 9:39 AM, I wrote:

do shell script "find " & the result & " -name " & msgFileName

My script uses a msgFileName that I know does not contain spaces.

If the file name contains spaces, it will not work.

This will work, however ...

do shell script "find " & the result & " -name " & (quoted form of filename)

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