any tricks to make SHELL non blocking?

[Dr. Hawkins]

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Mike Bonner:  I'll try the Open Process suggestion you made - again with
> more syntax variations this time. thanks!
>
> Dr Hawkins - I don't have control over the name of the CD source file..
>

You can change them.   once you have the name in filNam,

put filNam into newFilNam

replace space with "\ " in filNam

replace space with "_" in newFilNam

get shell ("mv filNam newFilNam")


or, just use newFilNam--but spaces in filenames are always going to hurt
and cause problem, not mater the source.

>
>
> Dr Hawkins:  when you say "escape spaces" do you mean something like
>
> \%20
>
ack, no!  that's html!


>
> or
>
> \[actual space char]
>

yes, this--it's not a regex, but the shell recognizes this an a couple of
others, some with different meanings than in a regex


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