On 04/04/2008, Randall Meadows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having problems with what should be a simple NSTask invocation:
>
> NSArray *args = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
> @"-cf",
> [NSString stringWithFormat:@"\"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"", tarFilePath],
> [NSString stringWithFormat:@"\"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"", plistPath],
> nil];
> tarTask = [NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath:@"/usr/bin/tar"
> arguments:args];
> [tarTask waitUntilExit];
> int status = [tarTask terminationStatus];
>
> After all that, status = 2.
>
> I've tried making the arguments only 1 entry in the array, and the same
> thing; I've both quoting and not quoting the arguments, and the same thing;
> I've tried using a dash with the options and without, and the same
> thing--always status=2 (fatal error).
>
> tarFilePath and plistPath are full paths, and valid ones at that.
>
> I can take the contents of all that and do it on the command line and that
> works. What in the world am I missing here that is causing it to fail?
I do something very similar. The only difference is I'm not
constructing a path via stringWithFormat. I'm using either NSString's
"fileSystemRepresentation" or NSURL's "path" method to get a well
formed path to pass in as a parameter...
So I wonder what your stringWithFormat results actually look like.
Hey wait... why does your tarFilePath end with a "/", isn't that the
equivalent of doing a
tar cf ~/tmp/archive.tar/ /{blah}/SourceFolder/
???
That will bork for sure... Also are you sure that plistPath is a
directory? It will sure look that way to "tar".
Do try the fileSystemRepresentation method :-)
Cheers,
-H.
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