Colas, Bash’s -c option expects commands in a string which follows. Therefore, this will work: I’m using /usr/bin/touch as an example, rather than your example of pico, which is an interactive text editor.
NSTask * myTask = [[NSTask alloc]init]; NSArray * arguments = @[@"-c", @"/usr/bin/touch /Users/colas/touchedFile.txt", @"-l"]; [myTask setCurrentDirectoryPath:@"/"]; [myTask setLaunchPath:@"/bin/bash"]; [myTask setArguments:arguments]; [myTask launch]; This will touch a file named “touchedFile.txt” at the root of your home directory. — Bryan On Apr 14, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Colas B <colasj...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > OK. > > But without the simple quotes, it also fails. > > With the quotes, the error is > /bin/bash: pico /Users/colas/myfile.txt: No such file or directory > Without the quotes, the error is > Error opening terminal: unknown. > > Thanks! > Le Lundi 14 avril 2014 16h19, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> a écrit : > > From documentation of -[NSTask setArguments:] : > > "The strings in arguments do not undergo shell expansion, so you do not need > to do special quoting” > > I don’t know what they mean by “special”, but anyhow, the ‘ ' you put around > your last argument will be passed to your tool and cause it to fail. > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/bkvines%40me.com > > This email sent to bkvi...@me.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com