Hallo Ihr lieben schlauen Leute! Ich habe mal wieder ein Problem mit mdfind in der Shell

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How to esceape an apostrophe in a shell script using mdfind?

I’m using a shell script and mdfind to locate files that contain a certain tag. It fails when the file tag contains an apostrophe. I’ve tried escaping the apostrophe, but it doesn’t help. Here’s an example of a search mdfind -onlyin /Users/me/Documents/PDFs ‘kMDItemUserTags = "joe’s"cd’ This also fails: mdfind -onlyin /Users/me/Documents/PDFs ‘kMDItemUserTags = "joe's"cd’ The error is: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"’ so obviously the apostrophe isn’t escaped and is . Any ide…

How to get the version number of an App?

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Schau doch mal, ob Du von den Beispielen eines zum Laufen bringst. Kann es ein Problem mit den ’ oder “” sein?