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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting open application with spaces in name [bash][OSX] Post 302678397 by jonathanwiesel on Friday 27th of July 2012 07:23:22 PM
Old 07-27-2012
I managed to eliminate the leading spaces but that didn't resolve the issue.

(as shown in last line on first post)
Code:
The file /Users/myuser/"/Application/Google Chrome.app" does not exist.

the problem seems to be that the open command instead of grabbing "/Application/Google Chrome.app" it starts from my user directory instead of the root one
 

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Gnome2::VFS::Mime::Application(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Gnome2::VFS::Mime::Application(3pm)

NAME
Gnome2::VFS::Mime::Application - functions for getting information about applications and components associated with MIME types METHODS
application = Gnome2::VFS::Mime::Application->new_from_desktop_id ($id) o $id (string) Since: vfs 2.10 application = Gnome2::VFS::Mime::Application->new_from_id ($id) o $id (string) string = $app->get_binary_name Since: vfs 2.10 string = $app->get_desktop_file_path Since: vfs 2.10 string = $app->get_desktop_id Since: vfs 2.10 string = $app->get_exec Since: vfs 2.10 string = $app->get_generic_name Since: vfs 2.10 string = $app->get_icon Since: vfs 2.10 boolean = $application->is_user_owned result = $app->launch (...) o ... (list) of URI strings Since: vfs 2.4 result = $app->launch_with_env ($uri_ref, $env_ref) o $uri_ref (scalar) o $env_ref (scalar) Since: vfs 2.4 string = $app->get_name Since: vfs 2.10 boolean = $app->requires_terminal Since: vfs 2.10 $application->save string = $app->get_startup_wm_class Since: vfs 2.10 boolean = $app->supports_startup_notification Since: vfs 2.10 boolean = $app->supports_uris Since: vfs 2.10 ENUMS AND FLAGS
enum Gnome2::VFS::Result o 'ok' / 'GNOME_VFS_OK' o 'error-not-found' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NOT_FOUND' o 'error-generic' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_GENERIC' o 'error-internal' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_INTERNAL' o 'error-bad-parameters' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_BAD_PARAMETERS' o 'error-not-supported' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED' o 'error-io' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_IO' o 'error-corrupted-data' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_CORRUPTED_DATA' o 'error-wrong-format' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_WRONG_FORMAT' o 'error-bad-file' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_BAD_FILE' o 'error-too-big' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_TOO_BIG' o 'error-no-space' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NO_SPACE' o 'error-read-only' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_READ_ONLY' o 'error-invalid-uri' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_INVALID_URI' o 'error-not-open' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NOT_OPEN' o 'error-invalid-open-mode' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_INVALID_OPEN_MODE' o 'error-access-denied' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED' o 'error-too-many-open-files' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_TOO_MANY_OPEN_FILES' o 'error-eof' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_EOF' o 'error-not-a-directory' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NOT_A_DIRECTORY' o 'error-in-progress' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_IN_PROGRESS' o 'error-interrupted' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_INTERRUPTED' o 'error-file-exists' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_FILE_EXISTS' o 'error-loop' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_LOOP' o 'error-not-permitted' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NOT_PERMITTED' o 'error-is-directory' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_IS_DIRECTORY' o 'error-no-memory' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NO_MEMORY' o 'error-host-not-found' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_HOST_NOT_FOUND' o 'error-invalid-host-name' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_INVALID_HOST_NAME' o 'error-host-has-no-address' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_HOST_HAS_NO_ADDRESS' o 'error-login-failed' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_LOGIN_FAILED' o 'error-cancelled' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_CANCELLED' o 'error-directory-busy' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_DIRECTORY_BUSY' o 'error-directory-not-empty' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_DIRECTORY_NOT_EMPTY' o 'error-too-many-links' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_TOO_MANY_LINKS' o 'error-read-only-file-system' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_READ_ONLY_FILE_SYSTEM' o 'error-not-same-file-system' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NOT_SAME_FILE_SYSTEM' o 'error-name-too-long' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NAME_TOO_LONG' o 'error-service-not-available' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_SERVICE_NOT_AVAILABLE' o 'error-service-obsolete' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_SERVICE_OBSOLETE' o 'error-protocol-error' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_PROTOCOL_ERROR' o 'error-no-master-browser' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NO_MASTER_BROWSER' o 'error-no-default' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NO_DEFAULT' o 'error-no-handler' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NO_HANDLER' o 'error-parse' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_PARSE' o 'error-launch' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_LAUNCH' o 'error-timeout' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_TIMEOUT' o 'error-nameserver' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NAMESERVER' o 'error-locked' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_LOCKED' o 'error-deprecated-function' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_DEPRECATED_FUNCTION' o 'error-invalid-filename' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_INVALID_FILENAME' o 'error-not-a-symbolic-link' / 'GNOME_VFS_ERROR_NOT_A_SYMBOLIC_LINK' o 'num-errors' / 'GNOME_VFS_NUM_ERRORS' SEE ALSO
Gnome2::VFS COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003-2007 by the gtk2-perl team. This software is licensed under the LGPL. See Gnome2::VFS for a full notice. perl v5.14.2 2011-11-15 Gnome2::VFS::Mime::Application(3pm)
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