Re: Scripting Terminal

Ray_Barber · April 21, 2002, 7:23am

I’ve found the easiest way (and safest!) is to always put single-quotes around the path. That is, of course, unless you have single quotes in the file name. Ack

Example:
do shell script cp '~/Library/.StickiesDatabase' '/Volumes/30 GB  Firewire HD/.StickiesDatabase'
Well, best thing is to check whatever path you put in, to make sure it is has no quotes and quote it, or escape quotes, spaces, etc if it does. I generally started leaving out spaces and quotes, slashes, etc a few years ago anyway, so that anything I did on my Mac would be cross-platform compatible. Especially important if working on websites. I use alpha-numerics, dots, dashes, and underscores. Oh well.

Many (belated) thanks, that seems to have done the trick!