B4J Question Whitespace in Shell WorkingDirectory on Mac OS X

Try using a backslash before the whitespace

OliverA said:

Try using a backslash before the whitespace

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Thanks, but this was above option #2. It does not work:

I am not so familiar with macos (have some months to work with)... but may be it is a user protected folder or need to give permissions?

I can execute the same line from terminal window without any problems. The code above also works well from a directory that does not contain any whitespace.

try that:

Dim sh1 As Shell

sh1.Initialize("Users/user1/Library/Application Support/b4j.example/test/Test", "<some command>", Null) 'or \

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Single quotes? http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20010305211647646

It turned out the error message was missleading. There was no problem with whitespaces in path but with a permission on a subfolder.

Thanks a lot for everyone helping me with this problem. To sum up: You don't need to escape whitespaces in a path at all when using a shell to execute commands. Whitespaces causing no problem at all.

If you want to escape whitespaces on OS X you may:
a) use quotes, i.e. "/Users/user1/Library/Application Support/b4j.example" (in B4x """")
b) user single quotes, i.e. 'Users/user1/Library/Application Support/b4j.example'
c) escape whitespaces, i.e. Users/user1/Library/Application\ Support/b4j.example

Thanks a lot to everyone, helping
Thomas

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