When i try to do a shell script within an apple script, if there is a space in a name of a folder or file i know that the shell script will not like this if i put a \ before the space like in the termianl the applescript dose not like the \ in the file path. How do i get around this??
do shell script “ditto ~/Documents/my\ projects/ /backup\ server/backups”
Dunno if this works, but it compiles:
do shell script "ditto ~/Documents/my\\ projects/ /backup\\ server/backups"
another possibility is to add quotes (slashed for AS) instead of slashing the slashes:
do shell script "\"ditto ~/Documents/my projects/\" \"/backup server/backups\""
Dominik
UNIX file names with spaces need to be quoted. The cleanest way to do what I think you’re trying to do is the following:
do shell script "ditto " & quoted form of "~/Documents/my projects/backup server/backups"
As already mentioned, a quote preceeded by a backslash ( " ) will also be passed a a quote to the Shell.
WF
Hi.
I’m not sure if I understand the problem correctly, so let me know if this helps:
do shell script "ditto ~/Documents/\"my projects\"/\"backup server\"/backups"
I hope it does
“Quoted form” would be the proper way to handle this:
get POSIX path of ((path to documents folder as Unicode text) & "my projects:")
do shell script "ditto " & quoted form of result & space & quoted form of "/backup server/backups"
“Quoted form of” tends to not work; I constantly get “file or folder not found” errors when using it even though the path is 100% correct. Removing “quoted form of” and using double backslashes fixes the problem (annoying as doing that is), so I recommend that method.
Is the quoted path being placed between single quotes in your script?