Sons of Thunder Software - Setting Directories With Spaces in the Path

> From: Simon Lord
> To: metacard@lists.runrev.com
> Reply-To: metacard@lists.runrev.com
>
> How can we set the directory to a folder with spaces? In the
> shell I would do the following:
>
> cd "Mac OS X"
>
> Under MetaCard I have to do the following which I would assume
> should work:
>
> set the directory to "/"&quote&"Mac OS X"&quote
>
> But that returns "can't open directory", am I missing a step?
> Anyone see an error in that script?
>
> Sincerely,
> Simon

As Klaus replied, you can always do:

set the directory to "/Mac OS X"

But for other UNIX stuff where you are using shell(), you can use "\ " which UNIX sees as a space. So "Mac OS X" and Mac\ OS\ X are seen as the same thing by UNIX.

Posted 6/26/2002 by Richard MacLemale to the MetaCard List (See the complete post/thread)