On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 08:22 PM, sean nicholas harper wrote:
I keep getting errors when I try and execute a shell command that containsfunction shellSH cmd
quotes. What is the proper way of dealing with this?
-- Sorry, no quote marks in cmd in this version
-- Uses sh; use full path in command
-- And shellCommand is ignored
put "do shell script" & quote & cmd & quote into s
do s as AppleScript
put result() into r
replace numToChar(13) with linefeed in r
return r
end shellSH
Is this the one you mean?
Look at this line:
put "do shell script" & quote & cmd & quote into s
This will create an AppleScript command like this:
do shell script "ping 127.0.0.1"
If you want to execute a command like this:
transmorgrify "Dar Scott"
It will become this AppleScript command:
do shell script "transmorgrify "Dar Scott""
...with the quotes in all the wrong places.
The quotes you pass to the shellSH function need to be quoted AppleScript style. (Or we need a smarter function.)
I just tried a wild guess. Try this:
function shellSH cmd
-- The shellCommand is ignored.
-- A full path is required.
replace quote with "\""e in cmd
put "do shell script" & quote & cmd & quote into s
do s as AppleScript
put result() into r
replace numToChar(13) with linefeed in r
return r
end shellSH
It worked on a quick experiment. It seems the back slash will quote a quote.
Dar Scott
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