On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Herb Petschauer wrote:
On 04/04/2008, Randall Meadows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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];

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.

Just as you'd expect; something like

"/Users/randy/Desktop/file.tar"

I did the stringWithFormat: merely to quote the path, but upon reading the docs further, it appears this quoting is unnecessary, so I removed it and just add the variables to the args array directly. I still get the status=2.

Hey wait... why does your tarFilePath end with a "/",

I don't know what you mean...it doesn't. There are \ characters in the code, they are merely to quote the double-quotes within the format string for the compiler, but there are no trailing slashes.

Do try the fileSystemRepresentation method :-)

tarFilePath and plistPath are used extensively elsewhere as naked NSStrings with no problem. But I tried, anyway.

Since fSR returns a const char *, I had to wrap that in an NSString anway, and the result looks *exactly* like the bare NSString to begin with. And yes, the result of using fSR is:

status=2

Still.  :(
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