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

 

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!

 

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?

 

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...

 

Thanks chaps. I'll give it a shot.

 

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`