It was the two separate shell calls. I had enclosed file name in
quotes. I neglected to type them into my email (my variable names in
my script were too silly to cut and paste).
The reason I was using shell() instead of a built in Rev command were:
1.) I didn't know about it :)
2.) My first objective was to copy a file into a folder. I had used
revCopyFile and it was taking 15 seconds to copy a small file. I new
I could use ditto and it would be (is) much faster. So I decided to
do the rest with shell().
Do you have cr defined as return?
Thanks!
Michael
On May 1, 2008, at 6:04 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Michael D Mays
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm doing this
answer folder ""
put it into aPath
put "cd "&aPath into aRequest
put aRequest into fld 1
put shell(aRequest) into fld 2
put shell("ls") into fld 3
No matter which folder I chose, Rev's 'Home' folder is the directory
listed.
When I cut and paste fld 1 into the Terminal, ls works as expected.
I found 2 problems with this. Firstly, if the folder name contains a
space, this will not work, so I surrounded the aPath with single
quotes. Secondly, I think you are using 2 separate instances of the
shell as you do the commands in two separate shell calls. If you
combine them into a single command and just use one shell call, it
works.
Here is my edited version of your script:
answer folder ""
put it into aPath
put "cd '" & aPath & "'" into aRequest
put aRequest & cr & "ls" into tCmd
put shell(tCmd) into fld 1
However, why do you want to use a shell command for this, when the
same functionality is built into Revolution commands? You could try
something like this:
answer folder ""
put it into aPath
set the defaultfolder to aPath
put the files & cr & the folders into fld 1
Cheers,
Sarah
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