Pass variable into Do Shell Script?

[zim]

How do you pass a variable into a Do Shell Script? I want to itterate through a group of files in a loop and chmod each one to 777, but to do that I have to get the filepath into the Do Shell Script command.

I was trying this kind of thing (which doesn’t work!) …

–Open this script in a new Script Editor window.

repeat with theFile in these_files
do shell script “chmod 777 theFile”
end repeat

Thanks!

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[zim]

I’ve managed to figure out that I should be doing something like this …

–Open this script in a new Script Editor window.

repeat with theFile in these_files
set theCommand to "sudo chmod 777 " & theFile
do shell script theCommand
end repeat

But it doesn’t work?! Any ideas please anyone?

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[jonn8]

Without seeing your code to know what the these_files list contains, I suspect it is a path type issue. By that I mean you are probably feeding the script a list of Mac style paths (or file references) instead of the POSIX file paths the shell script needs. If that is the case, this should work:

–Open this script in a new Script Editor window.

repeat with theFile in these_files
set theCommand to "sudo chmod 777 " & (quoted form of POSIX path of theFile)
do shell script theCommand
end repeat

Jon

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[zim]

Thanks! That was it