Common writable folders
Jim Ault
JimAultWins at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 18 16:56:14 EST 2007
On 1/18/07 1:46 PM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> Ken Ray wrote:
>
>> you needt to escape the backslash because AppleScript uses that
>> for its own purposes. Try this:
>>
>> put "chmod 777 /Library/Application\\ Support/myfolder/" into tShellCmd
>> put "do shell script" &"e& tShellCmd "e&& "with administrator
>> privileges" into tCmd
>> do tCmd as applescript
>> put the result
>
> That seems to work too, good to know. But see my other note, I got it to
> work without any backslash at all.
The reason for this is that there are two layers of escaping needed.
1) Applescript uses the \ character to escape things in any string;
and 2) the shell itself uses \ to escape things.
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