Difficulty using shell in Ubuntu Linux

[Dave Cope]

Bob Warren wrote:
> I now have an explanation as to why the shell in (Ubuntu) Linux seems to 
> work sometimes, but not others: the HD path to the executable for 
> launching MUST NOT CONTAIN BLANKS!
> 
> For example, this works like a charm:
> 
>   global myVar
>   put "/home/bob/Desktop/folderwithnospaces/myprog" into myVar
>   set the defaultFolder to "/home/bob/Desktop/folderwithnospaces"
>   get shell(myVar)
> 
> This doesn't work at all:
> 
>   global myVar
>   put "/home/bob/Desktop/folder with spaces/yourprog" into myVar
>   set the defaultFolder to "/home/bob/Desktop/folder with spaces"
>   get shell(myVar)
> 
> Exactly the same thing applies to the LAUNCH command.
> 
> Now what do I do?
> Any ideas anyone?
> 
> Bob
> 
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Hi Bob,

This is a guess as I've not got Rev on Linux, but I do use Unix/GNU 
Linux in general. When specifying spaces on the command line, they need 
to be escaped.

For example: ls folder with spaces/
becomes: ls folder\ with\ spaces/

So the same might be true for Rev: put "/home/bob/Desktop/folder\ with\ 
spaces/yourprog" into myVar

Hope this helps
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