Difficulty using shell in Ubuntu Linux

[Bob Warren]

If he will forgive the horrible pun, Dave really knows how to cope! 
Works great!
Thanks very much indeed, Dave. You have saved my bacon.

Best,
Bob

Dave Cope wrote:

> 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