Difficulty using shell in Ubuntu Linux

Bob Warren robertum at brturbo.com
Tue Feb 21 12:23:09 EST 2006


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






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