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
