Markus

Afternoon/Evening,
A question for those scripting types out there.

I want to have a shell script that I can pass a path to and then have add something to that path and perform an action with it. For example the command would be:

$ ./myscript /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X/

The script would do the following:

Now, I can issue the command as mentioned above, but it tells me that the path /Volumes/Mac does not exist, so I'm guessing it's not correctly parsing the spaces in the volume name.

What am I doing wrong, and how do I get it to work?

Thanks in advance

jpor

iTrader: (1)

You need to put an if statement in to check.

Something on the lines of:

F1="${1}/Library/NameOfFolder/"
F2="${1}/Library/StartupItems/AnotherFolder/"

if [ -d ${F1} ]
then
rm ${F1}
else
echo " ${F1} not found!"
fi

if [ -d ${F2} ]
then
rm -rf ${F2}
else
echo "${F2} not found !"
fi

A breakdown of this:

declare variables F1 & F2

If -d (directroy) exists then remove

This is NOT tested as my RS6000 isn't powered up at the moment to test this little code. So worth testing 1st!

Markus

Should have mentioned, the path /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X/ does exist. I think the problem is due to the spaces in the "Mac OS X" bit of ther path name.

Guessing I need to somehow encode them, any ideas how?

stevem2k

and all your backslashes that will need escaping ....

could use 'eval'
$ x="etcha\ sketch"
$ eval cd $x

export $basedir="/path/to/space in/here"

echo $basedir fails
echo "$basedir" works.....



I can't test it all as I don't have access to macs.....give it a whirl...

Markus

Thanks chaps. I'll give it a shot.

GaryCat

You need to put the args in double quotes when you call it e.g.

$ ./myscript "/Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X/"

...then it will be treated as one arg. Otherwise you could concatenate it in your script like...

var=`echo $1 $2 $3`