Hello, I am trying to invoke shell commands with (sys:open-pipe ...) on OSX. If I have a "new folder" somewhere on my disk, what do I have to do to 'encode' the space char in the command string? Trying to do "new\ folder" like in the Terminal does not seem to work.... Any hints? Thanks, Peter
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:31:32 +0100, mod13@onlinehome.de wrote: > I am trying to invoke shell commands with (sys:open-pipe ...) on > OSX. > > If I have a "new folder" somewhere on my disk, what do I have to do > to 'encode' the space char in the command string? > > Trying to do "new\ folder" like in the Terminal does not seem to > work.... > > Any hints? Did you make sure to use two backslashes? One is for Lisp to escape the second backslash, otherwise you're just escaping the space which does nothing. Alternatively, you could surround the file's name with single quotes. Edi.