Can't change directory with shell(cd)

[Michael D Mays]

It was the two separate shell calls. I had enclosed file name in  
quotes. I neglected to type them into my email (my variable names in  
my script were too silly to cut and paste).

The reason I was using shell() instead of a built in Rev command were:
1.) I didn't know about it :)
2.) My first objective was to copy a file into a folder. I had used  
revCopyFile and it was taking 15 seconds to copy a small file. I  new  
I could use ditto and it would be (is) much faster. So I decided to  
do the rest with shell().

Do you have cr defined as return?

Thanks!
Michael

On May 1, 2008, at 6:04 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Michael D Mays  
> <michael.rr at mdmays.com> wrote:
>> I'm doing this
>>
>>   answer folder ""
>>   put it into aPath
>>   put "cd "&aPath into aRequest
>>   put aRequest into fld 1
>>   put shell(aRequest) into fld 2
>>   put shell("ls") into fld 3
>>
>>  No matter which folder I chose, Rev's 'Home' folder is the directory
>> listed.
>>  When I cut and paste fld 1 into the Terminal, ls works as expected.
>
> I found 2 problems with this. Firstly, if the folder name contains a
> space, this will not work, so I surrounded the aPath with single
> quotes. Secondly, I think you are using 2 separate instances of the
> shell as you do the commands in two separate shell calls. If you
> combine them into a single command and just use one shell call, it
> works.
>
> Here is my edited version of your script:
>
>     answer folder ""
>     put it into aPath
>     put "cd '" & aPath & "'" into aRequest
>     put aRequest & cr & "ls" into tCmd
>     put shell(tCmd) into fld 1
>
> However, why do you want to use a shell command for this, when the
> same functionality is built into Revolution commands? You could try
> something like this:
>
>     answer folder ""
>     put it into aPath
>     set the defaultfolder to aPath
>     put the files & cr & the folders into fld 1
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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