[Gambas-user] Problem with Shell Gambas 3.10.0

[Shannon Kuchler]

I don't know where my brain is today it just dawned on me that it's steamcmd that doesn't like long directory names in it's command line I bet if I replace the space in  the long directory name string with a  \space it'll do what it's supposed to

On April 19, 2018 1:55:13 PM CDT, Tobias Boege <taboege at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Shannon Kuchler wrote:
>> The exec works unless there are spaces in the directory name the in
>instead of downloading to "my dir"  it downloads to "my" which makes me
>think I need to in close it like this 'my dir' but steamcmd gives me an
>error same director does not exist unable to write to desk
>> 
>
>Exec takes everything you give to it literally. If you say
>
>  Exec ["ls", "'my dir'"]
>
>then, it will try to list the file 'my dir', including the single
>quotes as part of the path. This file doesn't exist, as it tells you.
>Single quotes, like spaces, are perfectly legal in a filename and
>Exec lets you use them without trying to interpret anything.
>
>Look at this snippet:
>
>  Public Sub Main()
>    File.Save("/tmp/a file with spaces", "")
>    Exec ["ls", "-Nl", "/tmp/a file with spaces"] Wait
>  End
>
>Executing it works:
>
>  $ ./test.gbs3
>  -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 Apr 19 20:53 /tmp/a file with spaces
>
>And steamcmd doesn't throw up when you invoke it from your interactive
>shell, by hand, and use a directory with spaces? If yes, I'm out of
>ideas.
>
>Regards,
>Tobi
>
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