Shell scripts with quotes in them

[Detry322]

My access to the application "Terminal’ has been cut off because of parental controls :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
I was wondering how you could to the shell script “defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{tile-data={}; tile-type=“spacer-tile”;}’”. I cannot use this because it has double qoutes in it
any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

PS the shell script adds dock spacers

PSS IF i download LeopardDocks App it says i cant b/c of parental controls

[Tom_X]

this works for me…

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type=\"spacer-tile\";}'"
do shell script "killall Dock"

Tom

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[Bruce_Phillips]

@Detry322

I cannot use this because it has double qoutes in it

From the documentation for the text class:

So if you want to include an actual backslash or double-quote character in a text object, you must use the equivalent two-character sequence.

From Technical Note TN2065: do shell script in AppleScript:

Strings in AppleScript go from an opening double quote to a closing double quote. To put a literal double quote in your string you must “escape” it with a backslash character .