On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Rick Genter <rick.gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 18, 2010, at 12:33 PM, appledev wrote:
>
>>    NSArray *arguments;
>>    arguments = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"-c", @"/bin/df -k| /usr/bin/grep 
>> /dev/ | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1 $4 $5 $6;}'",nil];
>>       // arguments = [NSArray arrayWithObjects: @"-c", @"/bin/df -k", @"| 
>> /usr/bin/grep /dev/ | /usr/bin/awk '{print $1 '\t' $4 '\t' $5 '\t' 
>> $6;}'",nil];
>
> You have to pass each word as a separate string:
>
> arrayWithObjects: @"-c", @"/bin/df", @"-k", @"|", @"/usr/bin/grep", etc.

Normally you'd be correct, but in this case he would need to pass the
whole thing as a single argument to the '-c' flag of sh (you'd quote
it if you were actually in the shell).
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