deleting a folder

t524ube · October 12, 2009, 2:18pm

Hi ,

I am trying to complete an apple script to delete a folder as follow:

do shell script "rm -Rf ~/Library/Application Support/Audio Mixing/

due to the presence of spaces in the path, it is not working. I also, did the following:

set folderPath to “~/Library/Application Support/Audio Mixing”
do shell script "rm -Rf folderPath
when I run it, the event log shows the operation and path correctly, but the folder is not getting deleted…

Could anyone help me resolve this problem.

thanks,
Tommy

StefanK · October 12, 2009, 2:33pm

Hi,

space characters must be escaped with a backslash, in AppleScript the backslash itself must be escaped with a second one


do shell script "rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Audio\\ Mixing/"

or the whole path must be quoted (single or double quotes), but the tilde will cause problems


do shell script "rm -Rf '/Users/myUser/Library/Application Support/Audio Mixing/'"

StefanK · October 12, 2009, 2:55pm

right, I fixed it

t524ube · October 12, 2009, 3:21pm

thank you Tom this works.

StefanK:

Hi,

space characters must be escaped with a backslash, in AppleScript the backslash itself must be escaped with a second one
do shell script "rm -Rf ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Audio\\ Mixing/"
or the whole path must be quoted (single or double quotes), but the tilde will cause problems
do shell script "rm -Rf '/Users/myUser/Library/Application Support/Audio Mixing/'"

StefanK · October 12, 2009, 3:24pm

You’re welcome!