Greetings Norbert,
The exec method is most likely reparsing its parameter as a unix command
line. Placing double quotes (") around the path should cause this parsing
to interpret the path as a single token and operate on it as you expect.
try...
exec('touch -t 199911092233 ' + '"'+path+'"');
or what ever the proper way to include " in strings...
Fred
On Fri, March 29, 2024 3:01 pm, Norbert Vischer wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to change an image without loosing its creation date. I
> succeeded to do this as long as the path name has no space. But I cannot
> guarantee space-free path names.
>
> The following macro creates an image, saves it, and then sets its date to
> year = 1999.
> However, in the second run, it fails because the path contains a space.
> Instead, a file called "AB" with zero bytes is created.
> How can I handle path names that contain a space?
> I tried this on MacOS.
>
> Best regards,
> Norbert
>
>
> //===================
> print("\\Clear");
> close("ABC*");
> close("AB C*");
> for(n=1; n<=2; n++){
> if(n==1)
> title = "ABC.jpg";//without space
> if(n==2)
> title = "AB C.jpg";//with space
> print("title=", title);
> newImage(title, "8-bit ramp", 400, 200, 1);
> path = getDir("temp") + title;
>
> saveAs("Jpeg", path);
> date1 = File.dateLastModified(path);
> print("date1=", date1);
>
> exec('touch -t 199911092233 ' + path);
> date2 = File.dateLastModified(path);
> print("date2=", date2);
> }
> selectWindow("Log");
> run("temp"); //show in Finder
>
> //===================
>
> output:
>
> title= ABC.jpg
> date1= Fri Mar 29 20:36:37 CET 2024
> date2= Tue Nov 09 22:33:00 CET 1999
> title= AB C.jpg
> date1= Fri Mar 29 20:36:37 CET 2024
> date2= Fri Mar 29 20:36:37 CET 2024
>
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