[platypus-dev] Re: Bug with '$1' variable in Platypus 3.2?

Platypus passes the *actual* path to the script via $1, which may happen to contain spaces and special characters. Escaping spaces is just a method for telling the shell that you want a special character like space to be interpreted as part of a string and not as a separator for arguments.

Cheers,

Sveinbjorn Thordarson

On Nov 3, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Tony Thomson wrote:

Hi,

I just found Platypus, and am having some fun with it. However, I've run into a problem.

I believe the $1 variable, which is supposed to hold the path to the current directory has a bug.

If the current path contains folders with a space in their name, the $1 variable doesn't contain the escape character for spaces.

Example:
My path is:
/Tools/OpenGL Tools/current/

$1 contains:
"/Tools/OpenGL Tools/current/
$1 should contain:
"/Tools/OpenGL\ Tools/current/

Because #1 doesn't contain the escape character, using it in a script doesn't work.
The shell looks for:
/Tools/OpenGL

Am I just doing something wrong? If this is indeed a bug, any chance it can go on the list for 3.3?

Thanks,
Tony Thomson



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