or... to keep it as a one liner... put quote & "C:\Documents and Settings\myprofile\Desktop\My App Name.exe" & quote into theFilePath
˜Roger On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > I may or may not have responded to this, but you cannot simply enclose the > program name in quotes for the argument to the shell command, because > Livecode will simply interpret whatever is between the quotes and send that. > > Instead, put the path to the app or file you want to work with into a > variable, say: > > put "C:\Documents and Settings\myprofile\Desktop\My App Name.exe" into > theFilePath > > then insert the quotes so that the quotes are actually a part of the > contents of the variable like so: > put quote before theFilePath > put quote after theFilePath > > Now shell it out: > put shell(attrib && theFilePath && "+R") into myResult -- assuming you are > trying to get the attribute > > Does this not work for you? > > Bob > > > On May 23, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > > > On Monday, May 23, 2011 04:27:38 PM Graham Samuel wrote: > >> I tried "My spacious program.exe" since I couldn't see how to introduce > a > >> further level of quotes. > > > > > > Maybe it just won't work, but did you try to use the single quote char ' > ? I don't know if this is valid under > > Windows, but " and ' are interchangeable in Bash and Livecode lets you > use it to quote filepaths etc. within a > > quoted string, at least here under Linux. > > > > Good Luck, > > > > Warren > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
