[Gambas-user] Blanks in filename and path, problems with shell

[Steven James Drinnan]

I just make each file name encapsulated with ' eg if i would like to
use 

/home/steven/My Documents/some.txt

as a location I would do

path = "'/home/steven/My Documents/some.txt'"

and the
the shell cmd will work correctly like this

cmd = "gedit " & path
shell cmd  ....

remember shell  is just like using bash, so put ' around the paths you
need to use.

Sorry I can not give an example with pdftk, but you should be able to
modify the example to suit you needs.


Steven





On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 09:03 +0200, gregor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I create a little GUI to merge several pdfs with a background. 
> The syntx for pdftk is 'pdftk [inputpath/inputfile] background
> [backgroundfile] output [outputpath/outputfile]'
> 
> With no blanks in [*] there is no problems, with blanks the shell need a
> quote for the blank.
> 
> No I use the variant 'pdftk REPLACE([inputfile]," ",CHR(92)&" ") background
> REPLACE([backgroundfile]," ",CHR(92)&" ") output REPLACE([outputfile],"
> ",CHR(92)&" ")'
> 
> It work but is a little bit ugly,...
> 
> Maybe there is a better way?
> 
> When I tried it so:
> inputpath = REPLACE(DirChooser1.Value," ",CHR(92)&" ") I got a String wich
> seems right, but the function DIR(inputpath) had a problem with it,...
> 
> Bye
> 
> Gregor
> 
> 
> 
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