On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Andrew Farmer <andf...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 Jun 2009, at 14:18, Ammar Ibrahim wrote:
>
>> I'm using NSTask to spawn a process to do some work as per the code below:
>>
>>  <snip>
>
>> [task setLaunchPath:@"/usr/bin/curl"];
>>
>
> Why on earth are you shelling out to do that? NSURLDownload exists for a
> reason.
>
> In any case, the reason you aren't ending up with a file where you expect
> it is this:
>
>  [NSString stringWithFormat:@"-o %@", [downloadFilePath
>> lastPathComponent]],
>>
>
> Given downloadFilePath /foo/bar/baz, this'll create a file called " baz" -
> with a leading space. Either use "-o%@" or use two separate arguments.


Thanks that fixed it! Although when you call it directly from the command
line, it's fine to have the space there!
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