by Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 30, 2008 at 10:12 PM
In article
<fe4bf8a0-4e43-4315-9b98-f71c50d1f134@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Jason8 <jason.leach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I'm having no luck passing an escaped (spaces) path to a shell script:
>
> set myPath to (POSIX path "/User/foo/Some Folder/My File.pdf"
>
> do shell script "foo " * myPath
>
> The shell script then thinks it is getting too many arguments because
> of the space. The shell script works fine if I escape them at the
> command line; but I can seem to escape them in my AppleScript string.
You'll want to use the "quoted form of" command:
set myPath to the quoted form of (POSIX path "/User/foo/Some Folder/My
File.pdf"
do shell script "foo " * myPath
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