Escaping shell script paths (was: Photo Processing , Gallery and IPTC Data app)

[Ian Wood]

On 1 Feb 2008, at 19:30, David Bovill wrote:

> Thanks for this Ian. I've a couple of questions if not anything to  
> add...
>
> - The applescript you start with.... I guess this deals with file
> names on Mac that contain the "/" character for instance? What  
> exaclty does
> "set tOut to POSIX path of tPath" do?

Pretty much all it does is add the volume name if the filepath isn't  
on the system partition.

> - I use this command to escape any parameter in a shell command that
> may contain strange chars - for instance comments. I guess your  
> function
> applies to these as well?

Pretty much.

Ian

> on shell_BashParamEscape @someParam
>>  replace space with ("\" & space) in someParam
>>  replace "|" with ("\" & "|") in someParam
>>  replace "(" with "\(" in someFile
>>  replace ")" with "\)" in someFile
>> end shell_BashParamEscape
>>
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