using shell script

Getting Started
1

this is not working. what do I have to do to get this command to work in XOJO.

2

You should be more specific about “not working” so that people can help you better. I’m going to guess you are getting a compiler error because the execute parameter requires a string and your text is not enclosed in quotes. And for concatenation, Xojo uses “+”, not “&”.

I recommend creating your command string separately so you can easily check in the debugger to make sure it is correct.

Dim cmd As String = "do shell script ""open 'volumes/Active_Projects_A-D/FEATURES/""" + proj_code.Text + "'*"

Also, it is better to put the actual code in the post (use the code tag to format it) rather than a screenshot so we can quickly copy/paste to test.

3

OSX?

'volumes/Active_Projects_A-D/FEATURES/…

should it not be '/Volumes/Active_Projects_A-D/FEATURES/… ?

4

This really looks like an AppleScript that is being sent to an OS shell which isn’t going to work

You’d have to run this in a shell using OSASCRIPT

Dim cmd As String = “do shell script ““open 'volumes/Active_Projects_A-D/FEATURES/””” + proj_code.Text + “’*”

dim mshell as new shell
mshell.execute("osascript " + cmd)

not sure the quoting is right though