Re: Escaping shell script paths (was: Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app)

2008-02-02 Thread Ken Ray
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:52:28 +1000, Ian Wood wrote: > Oops. Just discovered that the above function doesn't cope with file > paths that contain any kind of quote mark. > > The following function should work better, escaping characters rather > than putting quote marks around the whole path. Her

Re: Escaping shell script paths (was: Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app)

2008-02-01 Thread Ian Wood
On 1 Feb 2008, at 19:30, David Bovill wrote: Thanks for this Ian. I've a couple of questions if not anything to add... - The applescript you start with I guess this deals with file names on Mac that contain the "/" character for instance? What exaclty does "set tOut to POSIX path of t

Re: Escaping shell script paths (was: Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app)

2008-02-01 Thread David Bovill
Thanks for this Ian. I've a couple of questions if not anything to add... - The applescript you start with I guess this deals with file names on Mac that contain the "/" character for instance? What exaclty does "set tOut to POSIX path of tPath" do? - I use this command to escape a

Re: Escaping shell script paths (was: Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app)

2008-02-01 Thread Ian Wood
On 1 Feb 2008, at 18:52, Ian Wood wrote: replace "(" with "\" & ")" in tNewPath Should of course be: replace ")" with "\" & ")" in tNewPath Ian ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, uns

Escaping shell script paths (was: Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app)

2008-02-01 Thread Ian Wood
On 28 Jan 2008, at 10:31, Ian Wood wrote: function ijwAPLIB_MakeOSXShellPath tPath put "set tOut to quoted form of POSIX path of tPath" into tScript replace "tPath" with quote & revMacFromUnixPath(tPath) & quote in tScript do tScript as applescript put the result into tNewPath delete char 1 o