[Gambas-user] Delete a file requiring Admin privilege

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Why you are not simply using Shell?

Jussi



On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:38 AM, John Rose <john.aaron.rose at ...626...>wrote:

> Apologies. I missed out the gksudo in my last message:
>
> The following works OK:
>     sPath = "/home/john/Temp orary/q w.desktop"
>     sLogPath = "/home/john/Temporary/Log.txt"
>     Wait 1
>     sCommand = "gksudo " & "desktop-file-install " & " " &
>                Shell$(sPath) &
>                " >/dev/null 2>" & Shell$(sLogPath)
>     hProcess = Shell sCommand
>     Do
>       Wait 0.1
>     Loop Until hProcess.State <> Process.Running
>
> But the following comes back with the help lines for gksudo i.e. where
> it does not understand the rest:
>     sPath = "/home/john/Temp orary/q.desktop"
>     Exec ["gksudo", "desktop-file-install", sPath] Wait
> PS If I change sPath to not have a space in the directory (e.g. using
> Temporary) but having a space in the filename (e.g. q w.desktop) then I
> get the same.
>
> --
> Regards,
> John
>
>
>
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